Tools for thought: faster thinking or for better thinking?

Take your time thinking

Thinking on time and space

Thinking is an activity that depends on time.

We give that for true not just because we think about time as a real object or a resource, but because we think about thinking as a sequential, time-dependent thing.

So if thinking lives on time, we think about its optimization: thinking more in less time.

Thinking is an activity that depends on space.

We make space between the elements of a problem, the terms of a formula, expressions in an equation, genre, and species in a definition.

Look at the baby playing: she learns to think by timing and spacing. “This, then that”. “This, then apart”.

Faster or better?

You may say, better thinking instead of more. But we have to be careful with the term ‘better’. Better can mean processing more ideas. Better can be taken as a quantitative property, not a qualitative one.

Better thinking, in a quality sense, would imply that no matter how much time or tasks you spend thinking, the outcome is going to produce sound ideas and thoughts.