{"id":2993,"date":"2012-06-21T19:14:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T23:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/06\/dont-think-4\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T19:14:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T23:14:35","slug":"dont-think-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/06\/dont-think-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this quote in the eclectic and always entertaining blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swiss-miss.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Swiss Miss<\/a> and it&#39;s one of the ongoing themes of this blog, namely that there is a way we &quot;know&quot; things without being able to conceptualize or articulate them, and that way, though elusive, is the key to true creativity:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u201cDon\u2019t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It\u2019s self-conscious,  and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can\u2019t try to do things. You  simply must do things.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;- Ray Douglas Bradbury<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0177429a0ac1970d-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P-0425\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b0177429a0ac1970d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0177429a0ac1970d-500wi.jpg\" title=\"P-0425\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this quote in the eclectic and always entertaining blog Swiss Miss and it&#39;s one of the ongoing themes of this blog, namely that there is a way we &quot;know&quot; things without being able to conceptualize or articulate them, and that way, though elusive, is the key to true creativity: \u201cDon\u2019t think. Thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}