What I am thinking,
What I want to say,
What I think I am saying,
What I say,
What you want to hear,
What you think you are hearing,
What you hear,
What you want to understand,
What you think you understand,
What you understand,
Because there are ten possibilities between what I think and what you understand, there is great difficulty in our communication.
But even so, we must try.
Do you suffer from insomnia? Tossing and turning in bed for hours every night while enduring the onslaught of fatigue and a sense of uneasiness is hard on both the body and the mind. There are many “remedies” such as drinking warm milk or exercising lightly but those rarely help. If you find yourself staring into the dark ceiling and unable to fall asleep again tonight, try the following trick.
First, calm your mind and breathe deeply. As you breathe in, count “one”. Remove all other thoughts and focus on the 1. Now, breathe out. As you breathe out, count “two”. Inhale, 1. Exhale, 2. Inhale, 1. Exhale, 2. If you think about nothing other than your breathing and counting, you will find yourself drifting off into dreamland in no time.
Solve the following riddle:
It is greater than a god and more evil than a devil.
The poor have it while the rich lack it.
If you eat it, you will die.
To find the answer, you must look within yourself and travel against the flow of time.
Answers after the break.
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When an obstacle blocks the way, the first response a person shows is thinking “Why did this happen? Whose fault is it?”. A person looks for the person responsible and ponders what appropriate punishment should be given.
In an identical scenario, an ant first thinks “How, and with whose help, can I solve this problem?”.
In the ant world, there is no concept of “crime”.
It is obvious that there is a great gap between people who ask themselves “Why didn’t this work?” and those that ask “How can I make it work?”.
In modern times, the world is dominated by people who ask “why”. However, in the future a day will come when the world is ruled by those that ask “how”.
(from The Encyclopaedia of Relative and Absolute Knowledge by Bernard Werber)
This scenario psychoanalyses how you prioritise your life and what you place the most importance in.
You are out camping, but end up lost in the woods. It has become dark but luckily you find an empty cabin. Under the dim light, you discover the cabin is equipped with a fireplace, a stove, a lamp and a candlestick. In your backpack you only have one match.
What would you light first?
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Richard Feynman is a world-renowned genius physicist, famous for his ability of solving some of the most difficult problems in physics. He said that his intelligence was all thanks to his unique yet “normal” problem solving method, which he used to solve most of his problems. Here is the algorithm:
1. Write down the problem.
2. Think very deeply.
3. Write down the answer.
If that does not yield the answer:
4. Sleep.
5. Wake up, then think deeply again.
6. Write down the answer.
Nothing is impossible.
