Rebirth

"Thinking is not an automatic function. In any hour and issue of his life, man is free to think or to evade that effort. Thinking requires a state of full, focused awareness. The act of focusing one's consciousness is volitional. Man can focus his mind to a full, active, purposefully directed awareness of reality—or he can unfocus it and let himself drift in a semiconscious daze, merely reacting to any chance stimulus of the immediate moment, at the mercy of his undirected sensory-perceptual mechanism and of any random, associational connections it might happen to make." Ayn Rand

I have found this quote and I had never considered that the habit of non-action extends all the way down into the choice to think. This quote is terrible and great for verily it is something I agree with but at the same time it also slaps me across the face with my own failings. Perfection is going to be a difficult mountain to scale.