Most people think that when they learn to read, a database somewhere in the brain is created to recognize words. Truth is the that some rods in the back of your eyes recognize parallel lines, some horizontal lines, others curves, etc. Your brain receives this information as symbols and generates interpretation—very fast process. You do not read words but symbols and your brain has stored pattern information that generates the perception and possible meaning. Same with pictures; you translated symbols into images. Fact one is that you attend to outside stimulus and generate a perception as meaning. Fact two is that you are not in your observation (unless there is a reflection). You need a story to put you in the perception along with the interpretation (just a reflection also and not a truth). Fact three is your perception will alter with urgency. In a rush you will settle for first stimulus. Fact four, your experience is a balance between creation and redundancy, with redundancy at around 93%. Fact five is that personal relationships, as a supportive element, may influence all of the above. Think love, friendship, service, sales, education, health, etc. This is the game and any level of mastery is reward with death in the end. Is there a bigger picture?
When someone tells you they rely on intuition, their guide or their body; that is all redundancy. Not wrong but familiar, based on past experience; not in any way connected to a potential. A potential is an imagined idea. This could be inspired by a real worldly need or just a spontaneous inspiration. The process of integrating this “inspiration” into structure—potential into form—requires lots of attention driven by an element of curiosity.
Scientific research is not 100% sold on certainty or curiosity as key elements in the conversion. My experience is that 51% certainty (I call it 51% arrogance) is most effective, and curiosity as clues to generate questions is the target for success in conversion. Children are very curious and attend to everything they are exposed to but once they confirm in their mind a “rule or fact” they are stubborn and reluctant to change. Clues are not theories, facts or conclusions but only topics or focus for curiosity. Make questions and not statements (intellectual conclusions) from the clues you experience from curious exploration.
Way back when I headed for college, with a major in Electronic Engineering, I typed and posted two documents on my dwelling wall. The poem by Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken and a list of quotes by Albert Einstein. I had no idea what I wanted to become and my selection as a field of study was based on research at the time for future employment. Remember, this is before computers, cell phones and even electronic calculators. We used slide rules for calculations. Our world today was beyond my imagination at that time. I was very curious and underlined this quote by Einstein, “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” I have engaged in a variety of occupations but have stayed the course being always curious as to what I will do next.
Chriss
