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  1. Jan 2026
    1. High-stakes life questions involve so many complex considerations that they demand extended thought.

      I'm a religious guy and I've been really busy those last weeks going back and fourth to the hospital to do exams and consultations with my doctor because there is a really high chance that I have cancer. Some people would be anxious and worried about the situation. But when slowly thinking about this, I understood that it matters a lot more what I am doing with the situation than what the situation will do to me. I had to do complex considerations, and following my faith, I understand that God has a purpose for everything. Earth is not my home. If necessary to do chemotherapy and fight against this illness, it happened because God wants to use me somehow, maybe as a testimony of his works. If God is sending me there, maybe there is someone in that hospital who needs to hear about Jesus. What good will be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? This unknown future made me think a lot. Even tho our lives are fast and hurry, this situation made me think slow to take complex considerations

    2. slow thinking is hard.  It takes mental sweat.  It takes time.

      It's notable that our generation doesn't take time to think and analyze. I would blame social media in general, but specially those scrolling platforms like TikTok, Instagram reels, and YT shorts. We receive a lot of information in short periods of time and it makes us impatient and anxious.

    3. What I didn’t know was that the process of writing, the process of developing my own arguments, would challenge me even more and become the core practice that stretched my thinking.

      Interesting. When writing or taking notes; we are actually organizing ideas and thoughts to put on the paper. That's why writing must be so important to create a logical thinking

    4. Learning to think would change me and how I approached everything.

      Learning how to think actually changes everything. Questions, discussions, interpretations, analysis... all those things are part of our daily lives and crucial to advance in politics, science, math, history, etc.