Thinking for yourself

After being protected by our parents, instructed by teachers and ordered around in our workplaces, thinking for yourself is not easy. If you let life run itself then they you may realize that you may not even get a chance to think for yourself as the world has already thought on your behalf. Scary, that we can easily run through life without getting an opportunity to think for yourself, forget learning to think for ourselves. The world does not owe you anything not even the opportunity to think for yourself.



What does thinking for yourself entail

• Means being clear about what do you want
• You may be unsure of what you want - but having the courage to bet on yourself to take a decision
• Have the courage to gather yourself if things go wrong and get up
• Have the intelligence to learn from mistakes if things go wrong (your mistakes or mistakes of others)
• Means saying NO to those who have influence on you
• Means saying YES to yourself
• Sounds selfish to others

Most don’t even realize that they are not even thinking for themselves.

Some want to think for themselves and complain about the lack of opportunity may not even have the courage to think for themselves. The privilege of thinking for yourself comes at severe cost.

Few have given themselves the privilege of thinking for themselves after paying their dues in terms of exhibiting courage to think for yourself

The cheat sheet for thinking for yourself

• Start small
• You don’t have to think for yourself for each and every issue of your life
• Pick and choose your battles
• For some think for yourself and for others let others do the thinking on your behalf
• The way exercising makes a muscle strong, exercising the privilege of thinking for yourself will make you stronger and better at it
• Listen to all, but think for yourself