Posted by If you’re not in charge of what you’re thinking, just what ARE you in charge of?
A recent interview with Monty Panesar reads like a philosophical follow-up to MS Dhoni’s comments that led us to ask: Do you control the mind or does the mind control you?
“My mind was thinking of so many things and I couldn’t actually take many wickets.”
It’s hard in that situation. What do you do? Do you shout at the mind? Tell it to belt up and stop getting distracted? Panesar has somehow managed to get a grip on the situation. Since going to play for Highveld Lions, he says:
“I’ve been responsible for my own thinking and also for my own decision-making.”
No-one wants to be a mere puppet with the mind pulling the strings.
We should be thankful he’s at least saying something new, sensible or not. Monty not saying something along the lines of “pitching in the right areas and doing the hard work” to every question is almost as rare as Ricky Ponting not starting a sentence with the word “Look”.
“SHUT UP BRAIN OR I’LL STAB YOU WITH A Q-TIP!”
Comeon KC you should know who was controlling his brain. It was Ponting ofcourse but again neither Ponting nor Panesar were aware of it…
Is Monty Panesar secretly Karl Pilkington?
“philosophical follow-up to MS Dhoni’s comments”
What did Dhoni say?
There’s a link there, Gerontius.
Sorry, I must have been half-asleep when I read that.