Philosophy and Reasoning have been high on my list for further study for a couple of years now. Before that it lingered in the back of my mind, but rarely came to the surface. I think these two items are near the top of my list now because of several factors.

• Philosophy is about thinking about thinking. Lately, I have been doing a lot of thinking, and my entire life has been spent overthinking.  I just can’t seem to let anything go without thoroughly thinking it through at least a couple of times. If only I had the knowledge then that I have now, I think my life would have been much easier if I had paid more attention to the study of philosophy. It turns out the studying philosophy greatly improves one very important skill and that is “thinking”. Of course I learned that mainly from Aristotle.
• Reasoning sharpens my thinking in many different areas. and therefore fulfills my mantra of “Never Stop Learning”. It turns out that studying philosophy and reasoning greatly improves one very important skill and that of course is again, “thinking”. I learned that mainly from Aristotle. To him the aim of logic and reasoning  gives us the ability to investigate, classify, and evaluate good and bad forms of reasoning. Ah, there it is, there are bad forms of reasoning.

Looking back, I wish I had taken at least a couple of classes in philosophy in college, but I just wasn’t mature enough to know that in my early years.

On a little side-story, all that technical stuff I learned in college became archaic within a couple of years in corporate life. It was then that I figured out that college was mainly about learning how to think and reason. Those were, or at least should have been, the foundational blocks of a college education. I don’t understand why academia hasn’t realized that fact and understand that philosophy should mandatory for any college education. The belief that philosophy is just for those nerds that don’t want to learn anything practical should be relegated to the 21st century trash heap.