Good news everyone - the loved WIP article series, Random Quote Analysis, is back! The series made its debut in December 2018, and you can find all of the installments here. Almost six years later (the time passes so quickly!), we're back with another quote from InspiroBot, the OG Internet AI that has devoted its life to creating inspirational quotes.
Here's what I got:
Don't ask questions; try to play the piano.
First of all, this is exactly right. Why? Because it tackles two issues that wreak havoc in people's lives:
- Asking too many questions, aka analyzing your own thoughts and desires and getting stuck inside your own head with these analyses, and
- Not having an external project to devote yourself to instead of getting stuck in those analyses.
The solution that InspiroBot offers here to the modern mental health epidemic (caused by excessive thinking and little doing) is to stop thinking so much and, instead, choose any project, any at all, which allows you to direct your energy outward and away from those inward-directed thinking processes; an example of such a project would be playing the piano.
Of course, it doesn't have to be the piano. Any illusion of meaning and devotion and commitment you choose and create is fine.
(Personally, I don't play the piano. I tried once when I was little, but somehow, my two hands can't work separately. I'm much more adaptable to instruments where the hands work together, like strings.)
You can work, read, paint, write, exercise, cook, paint your nails, watch movies from the 50's, sail, design furniture, or sew. (Those are the only options.) I don't recommend stroll-style walking unless you're listening to something engaging, like an audiobook, at the same time - some people find that walking triggers the inward-directed thought analysis.
A safe bet is to choose something that either requires your full attention, like tightrope walking or joggling, or something you aren't good at to begin with, so you need to focus fully to get the gist of it.
Once you get so good at the thing that you notice your mind wandering while you're doing it, pick up a new thing.
As long as you don't ask yourself self-analytical questions and instead try to do something else, you should be fine.
RK out.
Quote generated and picture captured from InspiroBot.
