{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1909-02-13/p052","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is very useful when answering a question or solving a task to first consider the different ways in which it can be resolved, and then to leave it at that, to say to yourself: “Now I'll leave it.” You have to have a belief that is very important for practice, the belief that you have something within you, a kind of higher person who can think even better than you think when you are present. You don't have to be so selfish that you want to be everywhere in your soul and believe that you know the very best. Those who believe in the real validity of thinking and have confidence in it will say to themselves: my thoughts will progress most beautifully and objectively through their own powers if I am not there at all, if I switch off and turn to something else, and then present it all to myself again tomorrow or the day after. You will notice that, if you have not been there, you have become much wiser about this question. The possibilities of thought then work in one, and one comes to a decision in a much more favorable sense. This is of tremendous importance. And if one believes that selflessness has not yet allowed a decision to be made a second time, then it is of tremendous educational importance to wait again. And one will very soon notice how thinking becomes clearer and more forceful. It becomes much easier to quickly put things together once you have trained your thinking.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"49. The Practical Training of Thinking","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-02-13","location":null,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1909-02-13/p052","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068b/English/SOL2024/19090213p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Wer an die reale Gültigkeit des Denkens glaubt und zu ihr Vertrauen hat, wird sich sagen: meine Gedanken werden durch ihre eigenen Kräfte am schönsten sachlich vorwärtskommen, wenn ich selber gar nicht dabei bin, wenn ich mich ausschalte und an anderes gehe, und morgen oder übermorgen mir das alles wieder vorlege. Da wird man bemerken, dass man, wenn man nicht dabei gewesen ist, über diese Frage viel gescheiter geworden ist. Die Denkmöglichkeiten arbeiten dann in einem, und man kommt zu einer Entscheidung in viel günstigerem Sinne. Das ist von ungeheurer Bedeutung. Und wenn man glaubt, die Selbstlosigkeit hat ein zweites Mal es noch nicht zur Entscheidung kommen lassen, dann ist es von ungeheurer erzieherischer Bedeutung, wenn man noch mal zuwartet. Und man wird sehr bald bemerken, wie das Denken klarer und schlagfertiger wird. 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