The document explores the idea of reframing personal development by challenging existing assumptions, particularly about concepts like love, which can include a recognition of value beyond mere attachment or desire. It suggests that defining complex emotions may require new terminology and encourages generating new thoughts to replace outdated ideas, emphasizing the importance of creativity in this process. Finally, it posits that creativity and the ability to generate new ideas can be systematic and learned rather than innate.

1. New Thoughts
For personal Development :
https://bit.ly/3uKD5Mf
New thoughts can come from taking a new
perspective on things. One way to do that is
to challenge the assumptions that exist. For
example, is love really a feeling of desire or
attachment? This is a common assumption,
but what if we challenge this?
New Thoughts on Love
Desire and attachment can be strong
feelings, and they are often called love in
certain contexts. However, attachment can
be for bad reasons too, right? Desire too can
come from less than noble places. What is
an alternative definition of love?

2. How about a recognition of value? Seeing
the inherent value in a person, like the
beauty you see in a painting or hear in a
melody. You do not need to be attached or
even desirous of beauty to enjoy it. You just
have to recognize it. The enjoyment that you
take in another’s existence then could be a
definition of love. At least the emotion.
Love is more than an emotion though. How
much love does a mother have for her
children if she feels fond towards them, but
doesn’t feed them? Love in this context has
to include action, doesn’t it?
This points up the real problem with defining
concepts like love. There are seven or eight
or perhaps a hundred things we want to
communicate. They are each different, yet
we have just one word for

3. them. Maybe rather than re-defining love we
need to create a dozen new words. Now
there’s an area for some new thoughts.
Random New Thoughts
Another way to have new thoughts is to just
look for new ideas to replace old ones. Then
you expand on the new idea, to see what
value you might find in it. Here are some
examples of new thoughts, without
expanding on them (help yourself).
– Why do we encourage uniformed people to
vote? Maybe it’s better to encourage people
NOT to vote, unless they are willing to
educate themselves on the issues.
– Is multi-tasking really a sign of efficiency?
Maybe the fact that we need to

4. be so busy just to get what we want shows
that our actions aren’t effective enough.
– Why can’t we pay less for a surgeon who
kills more people on the operating table?
Why not recognize that there are better and
worse doctors, have that information
available, and pay accordingly?
– How about wonder instead of faith? Faith
is just believing without reason. Wonder is to
marvel at the world and accept that we don’t
have reasons or explanations for everything.
Finally, what if our level of creativity, and
ability to have new thoughts isn’t just
something that is set at birth. What if it is a
systematic process, one that may not be
recognized by those who use it, but can be
identified and copied? All of us can train

5. ourselves to have creative new thoughts