Independent thinking integrates our personality. Our performance at work has little to do with what we do in our family. Our private lives are separated from our public lives.
In Untrained Mind, author Howard Gardner describes the impact of this "departmental" thinking. In their field of training, highly educated people perform well. However, if the environment or conditions change, not only will they perform worse—they will simply fail! They won't do it anymore, they don't know how to get their thoughts to overcome obstacles.
There is a problem with the way we look at the problem. The basis of “departmental” thinking is unreal, and trying to live in unreal fantasies is laborious and difficult.
In fact, these roles are just a highly related whole, each part of an ecosystem, each part has an impact on other parts. As Gandhi said: "A person cannot perform well in one area of life but behave misbehaving in other areas. Life is an inseparable whole." The overall thinking mode of
is the basis of Eastern wisdom, where balance is considered an element of life and health.
