{"id":182305,"date":"2024-05-23T13:15:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T18:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=182305"},"modified":"2024-06-03T20:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T01:10:05","slug":"do-you-only-think-youre-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/advice\/do-you-only-think-youre-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Only Think You&#8217;re Thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-182309 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2024\/05\/think.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white portrait of a man with short hair, wearing a suit, dress shirt, and tie, looking slightly upward with a thoughtful expression that suggests deep self-awareness.\" width=\"499\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2024\/05\/think.jpg 499w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2024\/05\/think-320x385.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: We recently came across this old poem and dug it. Enjoy.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>&#8220;Thought&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>By Berton Braley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You say \u201cI think\u201d ten times a day<br \/>\nOr fifteen times or twenty<br \/>\nAnd even more. Well, anyway<br \/>\nYou sure repeat it plenty.<br \/>\nBut pause and ponder half a wink<br \/>\nAnd start your brain-cells clinking;<br \/>\n\u201cI think\u201d you say, but do you think<br \/>\nOr only think you\u2019re thinking?<\/p>\n<p>How often is the thing you\u2019ve thought<br \/>\nOut of yourself created<br \/>\nAnd not a dictum you\u2019ve been taught<br \/>\nAnd simply imitated?<br \/>\nInto a reverie you sink<br \/>\nAnd like an owl you\u2019re blinking,<br \/>\nBut do you actually think,<br \/>\nOr only think you\u2019re thinking?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think\u201d you say\u2014and ladle out<br \/>\nSome fusty old opinion<br \/>\nThat probably was known about<br \/>\nIn Pharaoh\u2019s dominion.<br \/>\nDo new ideas ever slink<br \/>\nInto your cranium\u2019s chinking?<br \/>\nI wonder\u2014do you really think<br \/>\nOr only think you\u2019re thinking?<\/p>\n<p>Traditions, customs, fill your head<br \/>\nAnd some of them have virtue,<br \/>\nBut most of them have long been dead<br \/>\nThey fester there and hurt you.<br \/>\nSon, chuck that clutter in the drink<br \/>\nWake up\u2014don\u2019t sit there blinking!<br \/>\nWake up! And then perhaps you\u2019ll think<br \/>\nAnd not just think you\u2019re thinking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: We recently came across this old poem and dug it. Enjoy. &#8220;Thought&#8221; By Berton Braley You say \u201cI think\u201d ten times a day Or fifteen times or twenty And even more. Well, anyway You sure repeat it plenty. But pause and ponder half a wink And start your brain-cells clinking; \u201cI think\u201d you say, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":""},"categories":[42270,502],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice","category-character"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2024\/05\/think-1-499x280.jpg","aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2024\/05\/think-1-372x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2024\/05\/think-1-320x280.jpg"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Do You Only Think You&#039;re Thinking? | The Art of Manliness<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dive into the fascinating topic of thinking with this captivating poem. 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