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Thinking About Thinking, In Thoughts, Out Loud: A Collaborative Experiment In Rethinking Everything - Softcover

Dubs, Willy

 
9781067367503: Thinking About Thinking, In Thoughts, Out Loud: A Collaborative Experiment In Rethinking Everything

Synopsis

I do not have a fancy diploma, or even a high-school one. I am a high-school drop-out — sorry, kick-out — very late diagnosed ADHD/Autistic, addict (yes, currently), with a Grade 8 formal education. That has been fired from more jobs than most entire families have even had.

I couldn’t do school. Not because I was stupid. Because I was — actually, I don't know why I'm still defending myself.

Trying to give myself permission to write a book like this.

I was the little kid that wanted to save the world that had grown into the things he was once told he fought TOO hard against. Now an adult, driven crazy by a world that needs saving.

At 41, I quit drinking and started thinking.

I started pulling at the threads.

I started noticing patterns. In myself. In the systems that kept failing people like me. In the way we all just... run code we never agreed to install.

Has my brain been lying to me? Is it lying to me right now? Why am I still flinching at things that happened decades ago? Is my body doing the thinking? Is Consciousness the CEO or actually just the PR department for my brain?

Neurodivergent. Divergent from what? Trauma Code on Divergent Hardware. What if it's too entangled to delete? What if instead of accommodations we just built the damn thing “Divergent” by design?

Then into my Cognitive Construction Zone. The place in my mind where I fix broken systems

Politics. Economics. I even created a “Religion” Atheists can believe in.

I'm not here to tell you how to think. I'm here to beg you to start thinking. I'm here to think out loud and see who shows up.

Grab an idea. Fight with it. Fix it. Make it yours. I don't care. Just think.

If you need neat conclusions, read a different damn book —

This is for the Outcasts, the Weirdos, The Black Sheep. If you've ever been told you're too much or not enough. I think you should read this.

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