6.24.25 // Deep Thinking

What if the most important thing we can do right now… is think more deeply?
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We’re living in a time of impossible questions.
Questions that don’t have clean answers or obvious paths forward.
Questions that ask us to hold multiple truths.
To listen.
To stay curious.
To ask better questions.
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I first learned how to sit with that kind of uncertainty in a seminar room, years ago —
a medical ethics class I somehow got into as a freshman.
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It was me and one other freshman, surrounded by upperclassmen, both of us quietly overwhelmed. And yet, somewhere in that discomfort… it clicked. This was the kind of challenge my mind had been craving.
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Each week, we wrestled with questions that felt weighty and real:
What does it mean to “do no harm”?
Who decides what a life is worth?
Where does personal belief end and public responsibility begin?
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There were no right answers — and that was the point.
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It wasn’t about winning a debate.
It was about learning to think slowly.
To listen closely.
To live in the gray.
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That class shaped the way I think, and lately, I’ve been returning to it a lot.
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The world feels rushed. Divided. Desperate for certainty.
But I keep wondering if what we really need is more space to think —
and more practice being human with one another in the midst of uncertainty.
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Curiosity is a form of care.
Nuance is a kind of strength.
And asking better questions might be the most important thing we do.