How to think clearly

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Draw a breath. Slow yourself down. Robert Poynton’s book Do Pause

In a pause you can question existing ways of acting, have new ideas or simply appreciate the life you are living. Without ever stopping to observe yourself, how can you explore what else you might do or who you might become?

*What are you claiming, and why?* In philosophy, what’s known as standard form is often used to set out the essentials of a line of thought as clearly as possible.

*If I believe all of the above to be true, I should thus adopt a vegetarian or a vegan diet.*

*If I want to clarify my thinking around this issue, I need to investigate the divide between my apparent beliefs and my actions.*