"Chaos-Brain" vs "Library-Brain" - Which Is Better?
"Different strokes for different folks..."
"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells." - Dr. Seuss
I have a friend with whom I've worked at different companies over many years. Although when I first knew him, he scared me a little, I have always admired Dan and respected his prowess as an engineer.
Different Ways of Thinking
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Dan and I think differently.
I arrive at this conclusion one day when I walk into his office to ask him a technical question.
Dan leans back in his chair, his eyes momentarily glaze over, and in a few seconds he has just the answer I need.
This sort of cool competentence is characteristic of Dan. If I were to peer behind his eyes, I imagine I would see something like the following take place in his mind:
Incoming question... Classifying...
Topic recognized.
Dan gets up and opens the door to his perfectly structured mental library, filled with stack upon stack of highly organized knowledge.
He proceeds directly to the appropriate stack, walks the aisle to the correct section, reaches up to the proper shelf, and removes the exact volume containing the answer I need.
My brain doesn't work that way.
Let's turn the tables, and have Dan walk into my office with a question.
Dan asks me his question. I also lean back and, momentarily, my eyes glaze over.
However, what takes place in my head is vastly different:
Incoming question... Classifying...
Topic recognized.
I open and walk through a door into a gymnasium-sized room. Like a psychedelic hailstorm, colored balls of all sizes chaotically bounce in every direction at wildly varying speeds.
Taking down a butterfly net from a hook on the wall, I try to spot the right answer. SWOOSH! I snag one ball in my net, grasp it with the other hand, and inspect it.
Nope; that's not the right one. I toss it back into the melee.
SWOOSH! I snag another ball in my net and inspect it.
Hmmmm - not that one either. Then, after one or two more repetitions, Voila! This is it!
I hang the net back up on the wall, exit the room, leaving the chaos behind, and offer up my answer.
They say it takes all kinds. Dan, God bless him, is one kind. I'm another, utterly different kind. Yet we work well together, accomplishing much.
~FIN~
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Nothing like my brain, I walk into a room and forget what I'm there for
Me too!
Lmao!!! Same here
Seems were all a bit forgetful lol
LOL! I do that all the time, too! ;) :)
Think its something we all have to deal with at some points, getting old stinks lol
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Can you imagine how boring life might be if we all thought alike? ;)
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Interesting and very well put! It's funny but my brain was very disorganized until I discovered cannabis. I guess I would have been one of the ADHD kids if they had it back then. When I started smoking pot my brain slowed down and became organized, I would never have made it through college without it.
Hi, Rich!
Thanks for the compliment, and for weighing in on this.
The brain is one of the most magnificent, mysterious, fascinating, functional structures we know of. I read a somewhat controversial book by Ray Kurzweil not too long ago in which he describes research into the human brain and some efforts to analyze its structure and replicate its function:
"How to Create a Mind"
It's amazing how far we've come. I remember back in the early 70's when people laughed at robotics as science fiction. My friend Dave made robotic "guys" that had clear tubes with colored liquids that he brought to trade shows. That's how he paid the bills!
OMG! an instant flashback My friend was - brilliant too - you remind me of him so much
Thanks, John...