How you think about what you are doing affects how you do it, or whether you do it at all. So here is a middle-ground reply-Reflection matters because it is continuous with practice. The problem with it is not that it is wrong. And our mental health is just good in itself, like our physical health. It is the time in which we cosset our mental health. The time we take out, whether it is to do mathematics or music, or to read Plato or Jane Austen, is time to be cherished. A lot of life is indeed a matter of raising more hogs, to buy more land, so we can raise more hogs, so that we earn buy more land. There is no eye on any practical applications. Why not just toss the reflective questions aside, and get on with other things? The kinds of answers: high ground, middle ground, and low ground: The high ground questions the question.
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