Is it advantageous to have a structured mind?

[Jannes]

I heard many people say that it is advantageous to have a structured mind. I study math to become a teacher and the side effect of studying math many people say is that it structures your mind. But is that solely a good thing? Could it have the side effect that it makes you less creative or less capable to think outside the box? 

[Schizophonia]

What does that mean ? 🤔

[Jannes]

1 minute ago, Schizophonia said:

What does that mean ? 🤔

If I knew what a structured mind means deep enough I could probably answer my question. 

- I would say a structured mind is clear and precise 

- planning

- ...

 

What I fear is that the structure comes at the cost of simplification. No structure in your (human) mind can comprehend reality because reality is way too complex for that. So the more you want to conceptually understand reality the more you have to simplify I think. 

[Schizophonia]

Ahah i like your way of singing the thing.

 

Let's say that yes being more lazy and unorganized leaves more room for the unexpected and the unknown, that’s the "benefit".

 

Edited July 15 by Schizophonia

[Jannes]

@Schizophonia I wouldnt say the opposite of organized is lazy. Although they correlate they are different things. You can do lots of hard labor and follow creative pursuits but in an unorganized fashion. 

[integral]

I think what you have to be careful with is having a rigid mind that has a strict scientific benchmark for truth and believes that truth can only come in one way. If having a structured mind creates a paradigm lock then yeah it’s gonna be hard to escape your box. But Einstein avoided this trap. I think math is good for visualization and holding many variables in your mind so it should help with someone’s ability to explore possibilities which is what most creativity is. 

Edited July 16 by integral

[Jannes]

@integral Interesting perspective thanks for sharing!

I would agree of course that paradigm locking your mind is a trap that makes you less spiritually intelligent. But you can do math in a construct aware way probably. When you do it a lot you might gravitate towards a certain simplistic way of thinking so you gotta watch out for that but its probably not a huge risk when you are conscious that math is simply a construct to begin with. 

But it could still be the case that you cant avoid structuring your mind not in a content way but in a structural way. For examples: Structuring your mind won't make you believe that math is absolute truth but it organizes your thoughts in such a way that thoughts with little common ground become completely disconnected when before they could still be connected. 

But maybe it makes you realize way more things. Leo said he worked hard to make his thoughts clear and simple and only because of that did he have all the insights that he had. 

And the benefits in working memory from math probably also help. 

I have honestly no idea.