in the video below, philosopher
Alan Watts notes,
there came a point in our evolution
when we didn't guide life
by just trusting our instincts
and had to think about it
and had to purposely arrange
and discipline and push our lives around
in accordance with foresight and words
and systems of symbols . . .
and then we worry,
once you start thinking about things,
you worry as to whether you have thought enough . . .
do you see then that this is simultaneously
an advantage and a terrible disadvantage?in a similar vane, baseball philosopher
Yogi Berrahad this to say when a reporter asked him what he
thought about in the batter's box,
How can you hit and think at the same time?