Jennifer
@boomdeeyahdah
Jennifer
@boomdeeyahdah
“Your brain is wired to minimize the time it takes you to decode an image and react to it. To accomplish this, your brain simplifies and interprets the visual information your eyes transmit as you look at the endlessly changing world in front of you. Advertising capitalizes on this primal instinct. But learning how to think with visual information (not just react to it) requires a different way of seeing, one that enables you to pause the instinctual labeling and stereotyping of the visual images you’re processing and see the individual elements in the image.”
Curious Ordinary on Substack.
I paid attention to things I liked to do, and found ways to do more of that. I made it easy for interesting people to find me, and then I hung out with them. We did projects together.
I kept iterating—paying attention to the context, removing things that frustrated me, and expanding things that made me feel alive.
Eventually, I looked up and noticed that my life was nothing like I imagined it would be. But it fit me.
Data, on one end of the spectrum, is separable, objective, linear, mechanistic, and abundant. Wisdom, on the other end of the spectrum, is holistic, subjective, spiritual, conceptual, creative, and scarce. [...] Today we are drowning in a raging flood of new data and information and the raft of wisdom to which we desperately cling is breaking
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