We stretch everything we can stretch, hoping thereby to get the maximum amount of ‘good’ from it. We keep on stretching it (or ‘milking it’) until we can't stretch it anymore, and that's when things start to go pear-shaped on...
The one thing we can't ever do is ‘manage our thinking’, despite what we might be told to the contrary. Managing our thinking just isn't going to work, not ever. The reason we can't manage our thinking in the way...