I like how deep you get into the nature of what understanding is. I've been looking at understanding from 3 perspectives, Philosophical, Practical, and Scientific.
Understanding transcends knowledge acquisition, involving grasping deeper significance (the Beach - using your example) through critical thinking, reflection, and synthesizing viewpoints.
Philosophically, it explores underlying principles shaping reality.
Practically, it manifests as applying knowledge effectively through problem-solving, adaptability, and experience.
Scientifically, it seeks comprehending the natural world via observation, experimentation, identifying patterns, establishing causality, and developing predictive models using quantitative reasoning and data interpretation.
To me these philosophical, practical, and scientific perspectives collectively help me deepen my comprehension, enabling navigation of life's complexities as making sense of the world 🏖
My wife is a severe over-thinker and I'm a severe under-thinker!
The internet is full of advice and signs of over-thinking. You would think the world centers around over-thinkers.
What about us poor under-thinkers? I hate deliberating and hemming and hawing. I prefer to not consider options for more than a minute. I don't lose sleep about my decisions. Regret is wasteful.
As they say, shit or get off the pot; that is my life motto :)
The question is, are you still making the decisions? If you can make good choices without losing yourself in overthinking that is good. Unless you are hiding from making choices, than that wouldn't be good.
I like how deep you get into the nature of what understanding is. I've been looking at understanding from 3 perspectives, Philosophical, Practical, and Scientific.
Understanding transcends knowledge acquisition, involving grasping deeper significance (the Beach - using your example) through critical thinking, reflection, and synthesizing viewpoints.
Philosophically, it explores underlying principles shaping reality.
Practically, it manifests as applying knowledge effectively through problem-solving, adaptability, and experience.
Scientifically, it seeks comprehending the natural world via observation, experimentation, identifying patterns, establishing causality, and developing predictive models using quantitative reasoning and data interpretation.
To me these philosophical, practical, and scientific perspectives collectively help me deepen my comprehension, enabling navigation of life's complexities as making sense of the world 🏖
Thanks for the feedback. Understanding is indeed multi-faceted as you so well put.
If you understood all the sides of one thing, scientifically, philosophically, etc, you would in a sense understand a great amount about the universe.
My wife is a severe over-thinker and I'm a severe under-thinker!
The internet is full of advice and signs of over-thinking. You would think the world centers around over-thinkers.
What about us poor under-thinkers? I hate deliberating and hemming and hawing. I prefer to not consider options for more than a minute. I don't lose sleep about my decisions. Regret is wasteful.
As they say, shit or get off the pot; that is my life motto :)
The question is, are you still making the decisions? If you can make good choices without losing yourself in overthinking that is good. Unless you are hiding from making choices, than that wouldn't be good.