Cognitive Shaping Quotes

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.

There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.

We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use. If the tool is a programming language this influence is, whether we like it or not, an influence on our thinking habits.... A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.

Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

It is very true, that the way you think creates reality for yourself.