Summarizing the Book "Quick Wit" - Episode 6
Suffering and Quick Wit
Suffering treats slow thinking, meaning it treats quick wit. However, the suffering that treats slow thinking must be supplemented with something to treat quick wit, which is clarifying the evidence presented for the presence of quick wit within it. Quick wit stems from quick perception, and it can only come from quick perception. However, quick perception does not necessarily lead to quick wit.
Hence, efforts were focused on creating quick perception in people. However, this quick perception may or may not produce quick wit. Therefore, it is necessary to add other things to produce it, which is adding something to what is presented, specifically clarifying what is actually perceived in the matters presented. Accordingly, while suffering may create quick thinking, it does not necessarily create quick wit.
As for creating quick wit and making it fruitful and productive, it is necessary to add something else to it, which is drawing attention to what is presented, either by pointing out its shortcomings or the hidden aspects within it.
What should be done first
Sanctifying thinking is desirable, even obligatory, because it is a value of the highest order. In order not to eliminate people's engagement with thinking, nor to eliminate their sanctification of thinking, something must be done, which is to create things alongside thinking. For example, alongside people's engagement with thinking, we give this thinking its reality, or the reality of what is being thought about, so they don't just think about mechanisms. In this way, we do not eliminate engagement with thinking, nor do we eliminate the sanctification of thinking as thinking, but rather we put it in its place.
For example: making thinking proceed according to what is being thought about. If it is something that requires speed, then we create speed, through suffering. And if it is something that requires slowness, then let there be slowness. So, we allow thinking to proceed according to what is being thought about, not according to what we want from it. That is, the souls should not be preoccupied with thinking, nor should they be sanctifying thinking. Before anything else, this must be done in a way that does not distract from thinking and engaging with it, nor diminish or eliminate the sanctity of thinking.
If treatment is desired: treatment of thinking and treatment of quick wit, then one must focus on emotion, its center, and its impact. A person's preoccupation with emotion makes them wander through life without a regulator, and a person's preoccupation with thinking alone, or with the mind alone, deprives them of the ability to persevere in life, because emotion is the motivator, and the mind is the guide. The problem is not people's engagement with thinking, nor their sanctification of it, but rather the issue is restoring emotion to its center. That is, neglecting emotion is neglecting the mind; because without emotion, it does not produce. So, even if it is not neglected, it becomes unproductive. Therefore, the first thing that must be done is to engage with emotion alongside engaging with thinking.
Suffering and Quick Wit
Quick wit in a single thing or in a specific event must be intrinsic, and the person must have the ability to understand incidents and events. Therefore, suffering creates the idea of quick wit, but it does not create quick wit itself. Quick wit is something related to the speed of thinking and the speed of perceiving the thing and the event, along with the presence of the idea of quick wit in the person.
Quick wit must be intrinsic to people, and in order for it to be issued by someone who has the idea of it, certain matters and situations must be observed in a specific event. What we previously discussed about working to create quick wit is only working to create its idea or readiness for it. What we complain about is not just the loss of quick wit, but rather what we complain about is the complete absence of the idea of it and the absence of readiness for it. So, the work is to create its idea and create readiness for it, and then it is left to observation, facts, events, and formulas to prompt its creation.
The reality of what actually exists:
The reality is the existence of slow thinking, and this alone is not enough to kill the idea of quick wit. It is necessary to kill the idea of studying and scrutinizing in general. The soil is for the soul to be prepared for treatment, aware of the danger of the disease, and the climate is for a public opinion to be created about it. The subject in its essence is the view of things in life. If the view is that everything needs an opinion, study, and scrutiny, then quick wit, meaning quick thinking, cannot exist under any circumstances.
Souls should not be diverted from thinking, but rather they should be directed to quick thinking. If the circumstances require study and scrutiny, then study and scrutiny are necessary. If the circumstances require that, one should not think about study and scrutiny, but rather move to quick action as a result of quick wit in perception. Therefore, the circumstances are the judge.
The intelligent should have a love for speed in thinking, and they should even get used to speed in thinking, and by nature of their intelligence, they are inclined to speed in thinking and speed in judgment. It is said to them that every thought must have speed in it, so they are treated specially.
In conclusion, society as a whole is taken and the idea of study and scrutiny is removed from it, by giving examples in everything that needs study and scrutiny and what does not need it, and if this is done in the same thing in two different situations, it will be better.
