I have been reading Look, about phenomenology, the practice at looking at a phenomenon, without judgement, to try to see what most miss, to draw insights other people don't because they stop looking and start analyzing, judging. In my data science classes, I am learning the process of coding information for comouter processing. In our stream of consciousness, I am thinking we are doing collecting and processing at the same time, continuously switching from one to the other. I wonder if trying to analyze and process the things I miss seeing and collecting information. I wonder if in overthinking, I miss seeing. Daniel Kahneman in Thinking Fast and Slow, talks about how our brain operates at two speeds, fast automatic thinking or slow deliberate thinking. While fast thinking is useful in ordinary and automated, slow deliberate thinking leads to deeper and wise decision making.
How do we instill deep slow thinking and thought-free observing into our practice? It would seem to be more effective to work it that way. Would scheduling journaling and deep-thinking questioning help with letting go in the moment and collect information better?
