Mind Mapping
Going Into Overdrive
Today is Day 7 and the final day of my recovery project titled Going Into Overdrive. Guess what? I still got it. Thank you.
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Today I will share three short expositions of random concepts of which you might not find immediate utility other than as mental programming. Enjoy.
Idealists and Conflicts.
Idealists are attached to their view of mushy cooperation, harmony, and empathy. This is because of the way they view conflicts. They see conflicts as results of malicious intents. But contrarily, conflicts are often accidental and unintended. There are often no malicious thoughts behind them. Just real life friction and human fragility. If you enter into every friction with the mindset that your other fellow has malicious intent, it may go awry from thereon. Be discerning.
Pragmatic Human Nature
Human nature is pragmatic on a social scale. We don't go for the things that are best or ideal. We settle for what works and overtime, we view what works as what is best. Explanations from evolution work this way: something is good because it is functional. Example: ladies often don't marry who they love. They marry who is ready.
Ideals are great. But learn when to hold on to what works. By doing so, you will save your energy for the things that truly matter.
Emergence: face on a canvas
The brain and the self are different in the way that unused oil paint and the Mona Lisa are different.
There is no beauty in the unused oil paint. Same with the brain — it is just wrinkled meat. But when you give the oil paint to Leonardo Da Vinci, give him about a decade, and you get the magnanimous Mona Lisa.
While your brain contains the biological apparatus that will yield the self, it is not the self. The self is subject to a person. It is subject to what they do with all the information they have and will gather in their lives. You determine who you want to be at the end of the day. Use the oil paint of your brain to produce your Mona Lisa.
It is a wrap!
Thank you for reading my seven days of Going Into Overdrive. I hope you had a splendid month of April. May starts tomorrow. See you there.