Fact: Facebook ruins lives.

Embarassing pictures, family as friends, obsession with applications.

Need I say more?

The Difference Between 'Aha!' and 'Okay Then'

Now, from my last post, I may not have explained the concept of Aha! quite clearly. Now what I am differentiating between is, a moment of clarity, and a moment of understanding.

An Aha! moment, I believe, is a moment of clarity. Now, an example of this is a little friend of ours, a monkey called Sultan. Now Sultan is fed every day, her food placed in a bowl, and passed to her in her cage, or protective environment.
One day, her bowl is placed beyond her reach. She is given two sticks, and left to her own devices. Sultan immediately throws the sticks aside, and aims to reach for her bowl. But unfortunately, her arms are too short. So, she looks at the sticks she has just cast aside, and picks up one of them, and tries to hook the bowl using the stick. but unfortunately, the length still isn't enough. Now Sultan tries, and tries, and tries and tries to get to the bowl, in as many ways possible to her. And then, Sultan gives up.
She sits there, when suddenly, a moment of clarity appears. There is fission, adrenaline pumping, body shaking, moment of clarity, that each and everyone of us has had.

Sultan realises that she can put the two sticks together, to extend towards the necessary length, to hook the bowl of food, and pull it towards her.

Now this moment, this moment of realisation, is completely different to understanding information.

Say, if I were to inform you that the European Court of Justice is the highest court in the European Union on matters of European Law. The comprehension of this information is completely different to the realisation of Sultan's two sticks. You're response to this, rather dull piece of information, would most likely be Okay then. There is no Aha! moment in it's comprehension.

Sure you can say that the mind opened up to allow this statement in, just like it allowed Sultan to put the two sticks together.

But it's the realisation of concepts that are unknown so far, that results in an Aha! moment.

Hopefully that clarifies things.

Reaching an Intellectual Peak

I used to blog a while back, when I thought I had something interesting to say.
Now I've decided that in fact I don't.
So, I shall keep doing it.


I realise the other day, at the tender age of 18ish, that in fact I, possibly like many others, have in fact reached the absolute peak of my intellect.
I realised the difference between learning and developing.
I realise, that I can now learn things.
I can understand, and comprehend things.

But my mind, or my brain, or whatever the case may be,
where my intellectual development takes place, had now plateaued.

I no longer feel that Aha! or that voila! moment, that I once felt years ago
when things connected, and things were undiscovered
And how that developed into exploration.

Now, there's no mystery left in my mind
Which leaves no mystery in the world

Now, I feel like my sense of understanding is not going to be improving any more

My mind is as open and grown as possible
Now, it's just a sponge
Taking in information, understanding and comprehending it.
It is no longer that wobbly little thing in my head
A few nuggets short of a happy meal...

There is no natural growth, only manufactured expansion.

This is the smartest I'm going to be.