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During the first presidential campaign Michelle Obama was worried her husband's schedule allowed him "no time to think." You hear the same from business executives who traverse impossibly packed days.在第一次總統競選過程中，米歇爾擔心她丈夫日程排得太緊而導致“沒有時間思考”。你也會從那些日理萬機的公司高管口中聽到這種話。

But how many people budget serious thinking time on their calendar? Few. After all, what would you actually do during time set aside to just "think"? Sit in a chair, stare straight ahead, and ponder the world?但是會有多少人在他們的日程表上預留出思考的時間呢？很少。畢竟，要是你單獨劃出一塊時間來“思考”的話，你到底具體要做些什麼呢？坐在椅子上，對着眼前發呆，然後沉思宇宙人生？

Indeed, it's not a challenge you confront head-on. As Alain de Botton says, "The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralyzing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand."事實上，這並不是你面對的一項挑戰。正如阿蘭·德·波頓所言：“當大腦被迫要去思考的時候，它反而會抗拒；這項任務就好比被要求講個笑話或者模仿一種口音一樣令人陷入僵局。”

If you want to do more proactive, deep thinking, you want to obliquely engage in two kinds of activities.你要是希望作一些更積極主動、更深刻的思考，你無論如何要先開始進行以下兩類活動。

Directed Thinking Activities定向思維活動

Write. Famed author Joan Didion says, "I don't know what I think until I try to write it down." Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos preaches the value of writing long form prose to clarify thinking. Unless you're a professional writer, writing is not always about the written output; it's about the thinking that happens as you attempt to communicate. Do not assume you have to share your writing with others for it to be time well spent.寫作。著名作家瓊·狄迪昂說：“我不知道自己在想什麼，直到我試着把它寫下來。”亞馬遜的CEO傑夫·貝索斯大力鼓吹通過寫長篇散文來理清思想的價值。除非你是一位職業作家，寫作的最終產品並不重要；重要的是當你試着去交流時所產生的.思考。不要預設你要和別人分享你寫的東西，只要想着這段時間是過得很值得的。

Read a book. Don't read an executive summary or two-page cheat sheet. Read a full book. It's not about the content of what you're reading -- in most business books, there's not much new anyways -- it's about the quiet time you're spending by yourself. Unless you're a professional book reviewer, reading is not about reading; it's about thinking. It's about hearing yourself think.讀書。別去讀行動綱要或是兩頁紙的備忘單，讀一本完整的書。你讀的內容並不重要——事實上在大部分經濟管理類書籍裏，沒多少新的東西。——重要的是那段你獨處的安靜時光。除非你是個職業書評家，讀書並不是爲了讀書本身，而是爲了思考，是爲了聆聽你自己的思考。