The other day I was having a conversation with a friend and somehow we got on a topic which made me recall Frida Kahlo.
He hadn’t heard of her, so I gave him some context. And he said, “why do you fill your head with all this trivial, useless crap?”
That got me up on my soapbox, and now you, dear reader, are subject to this “treatise”.
Besides being interesting at cocktail parties, and it’s always a skill one should cultivate, it’s really far more important than I think most people imagine.
You ask why?
Let me paint a picture, it’s very likely if you’re reading this, that you work in a culture of information and ideas. So many of us do.
And in this culture there is premium on creativity, creative problem solving and crystalizing insight from observed behaviors and patterns.
Agreed?
Ok, so with that, I want to take a small step back and consider how the adult human mind works. By the time we all reach adulthood our brains have laid down patterns. We’ve experienced stuff, we’ve dealt with and responded to things, we’ve gained some successful outcome at times too. So we lock down those patterns (especially of the successful results). Here’s a simplistic diagram of how this pattern “looks”.
