The recommendation “turn on your head” is a reminder-recommendation to start using your mind. How relevant is this? And how realistic is that?
«Turn your head on! Think! “Children have to be reminded of this all the time. Children are surprised, they do not always immediately understand what they want from them, but many of them begin to do it. Boys at school think more often, it’s easier for girls to memorize the material and pass it. Good parents teach to think, good teachers make them think, teaching children to think is an urgent task.
However, adults do not always live with their heads, at least many women outside of work, live most of their personal lives, thinking to a small extent and more guided by their feelings.
However, even the one who lives with his head does not always think at the same time … Bernard Shaw wrote: “Not many people think more often than two or three times a year. I have achieved worldwide fame by thinking once or twice a week…” Perhaps this is an exaggeration, but before you laugh at it and put it aside, it’s worth thinking about it… It seems that people really think, not only not always, but rather even not often. Special studies devoted to the question «how often people think» are unknown to us. According to expert estimates in the process of natural observation, most people act more often on the basis of automatisms and think hardly more than 5% of the time.
Turning on the head does not mean thinking. Thinking is not just using the mind. People with a switched on mind are often content with past decisions, habitual constructions of the mind, without deliberately thinking about the present situation. To be able to think, to be able to ponder is to be able to put your head into an active (attentive) mode, start acting consciously, move internally towards the goal, take into account the consequences and draw conclusions. Thinking means consciously, that is, turning on the mind and attention, actively and independently solving life or situational problems.
So, the chain of increasing intelligence: