Thinking

A broad bare-hashtag concept Kyle uses to tag passages about sustained mental application. On the Thomas Edison page it anchors Edison’s argument that most people spend their hours “walking, or Reading, or Writing, or Thinking” but scatter that effort across many things, whereas success comes from applying it “in one direction, to one object” — “the severest kind of mental and physical application.” In Poor Charlie’s Almanack the tag appears with #listening, attached to Charlie Munger’s habit of deep, distraction-walling concentration; the book’s broader treatment of cognition lives under the more specific Multidisciplinary Thinking concept.

Where this appears

• Thomas Edison — in Edison’s quote that success is the product of severe, single-object mental application rather than scattered effort
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack — tagged #thinking on a passage about Munger’s deep, distraction-proof concentration