There is a certain amount of irony in this article.
The ironic part is that people don't read much anymore; they scan and skim and digest bits and pieces and perhaps make note of things, but don't really delve into the heart of the articles and books and certainly don't embrace the details as once happened.
What does this do to our mental processing? It means that the answers to all the questions may be out there, but no one has bothered to read past the third paragraph in a hundred essays and thesis papers, so the parts of the puzzle haven't surfaced and been interfaced.
Is anyone with me still? It's doubtful that more than a handful of people will read past that first paragraph, and only some of them will skip to the last part to read the conclusion, and that's what I am trying to emphasize right now.
So they've missed it, but you haven't.
(or maybe they've clicked on a link that's off to one side, and likely you may do the same thing before too long.
Such is life in this century and I won't dwell on the near ADHD mentality that makes us all too distracted.
(That's another paper for another time.
) On Napoleon Hill's classic book, Think and Grow Rich, he talks about Henry Ford being in a courtroom and Henry was being questioned about all matter of things.
Henry said that he didn't bother learning or memorizing all aspects of his business practices or many of the things that impacted him.
He said he could merely push a button and get an expert to give him an answer to any question he might have.
The internet has given us all that same ability.
The real trick to finding answers on the internet (or anywhere else) is knowing the right question to ask.
That is the problem with search engines and that also is the "holy grail" of companies such as Google or Yahoo.
How can you make searching more intuitive so people find what they are looking for? But I think the real problem as we store all of our information off-brain, so to speak, is that we can't make the leaps of intuition when the information is not stored in the gray cells.
If you've got a problem, and you've noodled on it, and wrestled with the facts and tried to rearrange them to come up with a solution, you often find that moving away from the question will give you an answer.
How many times have you decided to "sleep" on a problem and in the morning you have come up with an answer? It happens pretty frequently.
More likely it will be some sort of trivia or nonsense.
You couldn't recall the name of a movie you'd watched a few days/weeks/years before and then you wake up at two in the morning with the answer.
This example tells you two things.
One you had the answer (and the knowledge) in your brain, and some sub-conscious process brought it to the surface while you weren't trying to access it.
So taking that analogy to the internet (or your computer or your library of books) you can't find the answer if you don't know the question and don't have that knowledge at hand (in brain.
) So the problem becomes one of your brain's synapses being unable to fire and give you the answer because the information is stored off-brain.
Your brain is not going to make that quantum leap because it can't.
You (and I - don't think that I don't realize that I am in the same boat.
We all are.
) haven't mentally ingested the information.
It's out there, we just haven't assimilated it and we probably never will.
I wish I had an answer to write as the conclusion, but I don't.
The answer may be out there somewhere, but I don't know where and thus this essay ends up being cyclical.
All I can offer is this: Try to stop skimming.
Try to read a book.
Try to reprogram your mind to know that unless you integrate knowledge inside your brain you can't make those intuitive leaps that take mankind forward.
The ironic part is that people don't read much anymore; they scan and skim and digest bits and pieces and perhaps make note of things, but don't really delve into the heart of the articles and books and certainly don't embrace the details as once happened.
What does this do to our mental processing? It means that the answers to all the questions may be out there, but no one has bothered to read past the third paragraph in a hundred essays and thesis papers, so the parts of the puzzle haven't surfaced and been interfaced.
Is anyone with me still? It's doubtful that more than a handful of people will read past that first paragraph, and only some of them will skip to the last part to read the conclusion, and that's what I am trying to emphasize right now.
So they've missed it, but you haven't.
(or maybe they've clicked on a link that's off to one side, and likely you may do the same thing before too long.
Such is life in this century and I won't dwell on the near ADHD mentality that makes us all too distracted.
(That's another paper for another time.
) On Napoleon Hill's classic book, Think and Grow Rich, he talks about Henry Ford being in a courtroom and Henry was being questioned about all matter of things.
Henry said that he didn't bother learning or memorizing all aspects of his business practices or many of the things that impacted him.
He said he could merely push a button and get an expert to give him an answer to any question he might have.
The internet has given us all that same ability.
The real trick to finding answers on the internet (or anywhere else) is knowing the right question to ask.
That is the problem with search engines and that also is the "holy grail" of companies such as Google or Yahoo.
How can you make searching more intuitive so people find what they are looking for? But I think the real problem as we store all of our information off-brain, so to speak, is that we can't make the leaps of intuition when the information is not stored in the gray cells.
If you've got a problem, and you've noodled on it, and wrestled with the facts and tried to rearrange them to come up with a solution, you often find that moving away from the question will give you an answer.
How many times have you decided to "sleep" on a problem and in the morning you have come up with an answer? It happens pretty frequently.
More likely it will be some sort of trivia or nonsense.
You couldn't recall the name of a movie you'd watched a few days/weeks/years before and then you wake up at two in the morning with the answer.
This example tells you two things.
One you had the answer (and the knowledge) in your brain, and some sub-conscious process brought it to the surface while you weren't trying to access it.
So taking that analogy to the internet (or your computer or your library of
) So the problem becomes one of your brain's synapses being unable to fire and give you the answer because the information is stored off-brain.
Your brain is not going to make that quantum leap because it can't.
You (and I - don't think that I don't realize that I am in the same boat.
We all are.
) haven't mentally ingested the information.
It's out there, we just haven't assimilated it and we probably never will.
I wish I had an answer to write as the conclusion, but I don't.
The answer may be out there somewhere, but I don't know where and thus this essay ends up being cyclical.
All I can offer is this: Try to stop skimming.
Try to read a book.
Try to reprogram your mind to know that unless you integrate knowledge inside your brain you can't make those intuitive leaps that take mankind forward.
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