My Mind Working
I’ve recently been working my way through Dawson Church’s book, The Genie in Your Genes. It has been an very interesting journey so far, and it is taking me longer than many books I have read – not that it is hard going, but simply because as I read, so many things are ‘clicking’ into place. I’ve grown accustomed to these ‘clicks’ in my life. They aren’t really sounds, just the sensation when something I learn ‘snicks’ into place with associations across a variety of subjects.
I was an average to good student in school – smart enough to be able to get by while being lazy, dumb enough not to realize that if nobody else pushed me I should do it myself, but after a while I noticed that when someone asked a question, I could string together an answer that, to me, had to be a lie, but sounded good enough for them to accept it. Later they would thank me and I came to know that somehow, I had produced a correct response.
Over the years I came to understand what was happening – while I wasn’t a classic student, able to regurgitate at will the facts and figures force fed to us, those same facts were going in and being assigned a place. When I started trying to answer someone, the recovery process would reach across subjects, finding bits and pieces of data and fitting them together. Edward de Bono calls it Lateral Thinking.
So I spent my life learning, not worrying specifically about what it was, or from whom it came, and fairly early on I developed a view of problems that, if I couldn’t find an answer in a short time, I would work out all the things I could about it, then send it to ‘the back of my mind’ for an answer to come later. Sooner or later, I’d have an ‘Aha!’ moment as the answer came forward.
And sometimes, questions I had held for some time would suddenly find the missing jigsaw piece as I heard or read something new and I would almost literally feel the ‘snick’ as the pieces came together.
Dawson Church’s book has been like that for me.
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