{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1909-02-13/p053","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In this way, you can specify the things through which thinking can gradually be trained. Again, something of great importance is that you pay attention to the following for practical training in thinking: As long as you are interested in something, you should look at it, observe it and remain silent. You should only speak when you no longer have any direct interest in it, when you have risen above it. As long as you are still too involved in your interest in something, you should consider it and remain silent. It is best to speak when you no longer have a direct interest in something, but have detached yourself from it with joy and sorrow. Those who can do this will get very far. Those who resolve to form an opinion only when their interest has waned, who can take an interest in anything and hold back with their judgment, who only form their opinion in retrospect, will go a long way. This is a very significant pointer to how one can essentially train one's practical 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":178,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1909-02-13/p053","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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Wiederum etwas von großer Bedeutung ist das, dass man beachtet für die praktische denkerische Ausbildung das Folgende: Solange du Interesse an einer Sache hast, sollst du sie anschauen, beobachten und schweigen. Reden sollst du erst, wenn du kein unmittelbares Interesse mehr daran hast, wenn du dich über die Sache erhoben hast. Solange man noch zu sehr engagiert ist mit dem Interesse an einer Sache, soll man sie berücksichtigen und schweigen. Dann redet man am besten, wenn man nicht mehr das unmittelbare Interesse hat, sondern losgekommen ist mit seiner Freude und seinem Leid. Wer das tun kann, kommt sehr weit. Wer sich vornimmt, sich ein Urteil erst zu bilden, wenn das Interesse geschwunden ist, wer sich für alles interessieren kann und mit dem Urteil zurückhalten kann, wer erst in der Erinnerung sich das Urteil bildet, der kommt sehr weit. 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