#epistemology #knowledge # Edited 2021-12-04 - 08:09 # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Shallow vs deep thought Deep thought is a kind of analogy of [[Deep work]], but "work" (I hate this word) is too often associated with "salary" or [[Money|money]]. Deep & shallow thought reflects the effort put into an idea, a [[Memetic|meme]]. ## Shallow thought - Easily automatable - Easy to learn - Adds [[Noise|noise]] to the [[Mind|mind]] ### Examples - Filling a visa - Cleaning - Copywriting - People management - ## Deep thought - Hard to automate - Hard to learn - Requires and long intense focus - Requires clarity of [[Mind|mind]], [[Noise|noise]]-free [[Mind|mind]] - Deal with [[Compound Knowledge]] - Solves hard problem - Teaching (bad teaching can be shallow, though, what most teachers do) ### Examples - Discovering [[Relativity]] - Solving hard algorithms on leetcode.com - Scientific theories