Data
“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.”
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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