{"id":793,"date":"2010-08-31T10:59:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visaisahero.wordpress.com\/?p=793"},"modified":"2022-04-10T15:58:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T15:58:27","slug":"mind-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/31\/mind-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"How My Mind Works: Mind Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while- and these moments are exceptional, rare and intense- I have what I might describe as a mind explosion. It&#8217;s like a mental orgasm, but not really. I feel my thoughts transcending the traditional verbal mechanisms, from things like &#8220;It is a hot day today&#8221; to &#8220;I wonder why so-and-so is behaving like that&#8221; and &#8220;It seems likely that this or that might occur because of these things&#8221; to something a lot more sublime and non-verbal. I don&#8217;t think this is an experience unique to myself- these are the Eureka moments for thinkers, those moments of exalted honesty and insight that musicians, dancers, athletes and performers strive for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You must forgive me if I am not too interested in order and coherence right now- I am not choosing my words carefully, for I am in a rush to express this moment while it lasts. I believe that poets and musicians and men and women far greater than myself have expressed this before, and far more fluently- yet I still feel compelled to do this, for me.<\/p>\n<p>Where am I deriving this sensation? A lot of it is from independent thought, complemented by the interpretation of the thoughts of others. Reading helps, profoundly. What am I even talking about? I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself. Sometimes words just seem far too inadequate, and I feel like I have been tasked with a responsibility that is greater than I can do justice to at this juncture- like a musician with beautiful music in his head, but not enough technical ability to do it justice. Moments like these make me realise the value of practice- in this case, the development of a fluent and effective means of expression- so that I will be able to do justice to my thoughts. (I&#8217;m sorry, thoughts.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everybody would be happier if there were more designated smoking areas, including (and especially) non-smokers.<\/li>\n<li>The thinkers at the frontiers of human knowledge are on to unbelievably exciting things, and they need our fullest support. They ought to be rock stars!<\/li>\n<li>Environment is everything and we really ought to choose ours as effectively as possible.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"What Jason and Odysseus can teach you about doing the impossible.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/3074\/jason-odysseus-and-the-hacking-of-the-sirens-song\/\">Odysseus and the Sirens<\/a>, and what that means for the rest of us with regards to making choices- ^related to the above (I&#8217;ve written a post about it!)<\/li>\n<li>Happiness is a choice, and it is hard work&#8230; matter of perception<\/li>\n<li>Always seek out new perspectives for they are exciting and in a sense empowering<\/li>\n<li>Importance of effective habits&#8230; more profound than we can possibly imagine<\/li>\n<li>Importance of strategy, tactics&#8230; ^related to the above<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(The feeling is subsiding now, a little bit&#8230; I&#8217;m sure that there was more)<\/p>\n<p>I have to share my input on some of the things I&#8217;ve been reading lately- The Age Of Absurdity by Michael Foley, Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland, The Genius In All Of Us by David Shenk, and similar ideas from several books by Napoleon Hill<\/p>\n<p>Successful people are different from average people because of the choices that they make and the habits that they form&#8230; they&#8217;re not particularly special or different from us in any way, there&#8217;s nothing they have that we don&#8217;t. That&#8217;s exciting, empowering and also very humbling and kinda sad<\/p>\n<p>Awareness brings with it a deep sense of personal responsibility&#8230; for me, at least, and I&#8217;d like to think that it should for everybody, but that assumes that you&#8217;ve already made the leap into realising that personal responsibility is one of the most important things in living a fulfilling life<\/p>\n<p>what else WHAT ELSE @()#%@#5<\/p>\n<p>When all options are equally absurd, it is pragmatic to choose the most positive or noble&#8230; I think<\/p>\n<p>this post probably doesn&#8217;t deserve to be published and should be a draft rather than anything else, but i&#8217;m going to publish it anyway, just the way it is, so you get to sort of see how my mind works, in a way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while- and these moments are exceptional, rare and intense- I have what I might describe as a mind explosion. It&#8217;s like a mental orgasm, but not really. 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