MUTHUKUMARAN V
Storytelling
“The essay that shall impact the human race and an essay that can change the world”
Hello kids! what I’m about to tell you is privileged. I’m about to teach you nobility. It is an abstraction. What I mean when I say ‘abstraction’ is: when a form of thought governs another form of thought. When you understand something because of the understanding presented by the understanding of something else.
Consider this Universe. It is massive. Huge. Enormous! The scale of which is outside what you can perceive by anything that which has thus far been taught to you until now. ‘Why?’ you ask me. There is the earth. There are the people on the earth. And there is you. You are trying to understand a universe from a system of thinking which you have developed/co-created with what your inference of thev world is, by all your possible senses. And then, there is the Universe.
Let me explain. Put yourself in the shoes of a white coated scientist working in a biotechnology lab full of curious little glass instruments and machineries that perform curiouser functions – to understand the characteristics of life forms. You are the scientist now, you are performing an experiment (the purpose of which is immaterial) by cultivating bacterial colonies (a congregation of bacteria living together in clusters). You being the experimenter, provide it all the nutrients and environment that is responsible for them to thrive and grow. (Serve it on a ‘petri dish’ – if you fancy the geeky humour)
Poof! Now get out of your Scientist-mind and fly into the mind of the bacteria. Bacteria: living and conscious. It is observing its brothers and sisters live and thrive so good, as much as it does itself. The bacteria is happy. The bacteria, also being of generous nature, recognises/imagines that some external entity could possibly be providing it all its necessary preconditions and current environment which is capable of its sustenance (Now jump the fourth wall! Compare the bacteria to us living in this small earth/planet with all its exact specifications required for our existence, by chance or otherwise. Provided by an external entity you call God/Energy/Cause and effect, depending on your belief system)
The bacteria continuing to be of generous nature, wants to let the external entity know that it is oh so grateful for that which it is being provided with and if it could assist him in any manner possible.
Poof again! Now you are in the shoes of the scientist. The only way he has of observing the bacteria, in his particular experiment, is the change in colour brought about by the staining of the bacteria. For he is merely conducting an experiment. Nothing further. If the bacteria changes colour (only what he is observing for, at that), it indicates to him a mere effect in his experiment’s test sample. Abstract! Observe now, the scale of things. Observe the magnitude of the improbability that one faces in communicating, not less understanding the existence out of one’s own plane of existence!
Observe God. Observe the magnitude of it. The brilliance of the methodical gap between different entities of creation. The infinity of the Universe just went infinity fold!
For this is where your origin of thought is wrought.
They say think at an elementary level. Think from the basics. No wonder clarity comes from the basics (or how strong the foundations of your mental construct is).
Understand child, now at this moment you have entered a space or sphere of thought that can change the Universe.
Thoughts come from a construct. Thoughts spring from conditioning. Thoughts are limited by belief systems. Thoughts arise out of even change in emotions (triggered by mere biochemical secretions in the human body). But don’t be daunted. They are just thoughts.
It is you who make them.
Clarity is thoughts in order. As is the order that which you have made and understood. Clarity sparks extrapolation, clarity causes and catalyses creation!
Do you feel the excitement? Do you feel the call of Science? Do you feel the call of Astronomy? Do you feel the call of the Universe? It is just waiting for you out there, waiting for you to understand its nature just so that it could provide some more for you to understand, from its very own infinite magnitude! Feel the call of the Abstract! Join me, let us create the future of humanity itself!
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Coffee Salad Vegetable Bread Tissues Fish Chicken Soup Orange Juice -> Random words in my long term memory by telling a story to it. (Find this: http://www.infiniteminds.info/Memory-Enhancement/The-Journey-Technique.html )
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Break down mnemonics into a story and define each aspect to understand it..
Mnemonics can be learnt by mnemonics. How? What is happening in mnemonics is that you are linking things in a logical fashion/visual fashion/visual-moving-journey fashion/creative/humour fashion so that it sinks into the long term memory. So to implement a mnemonics learning hack you must employ a similar approach to sink it into your long term memory to be actually able to use it repeatedly.. Any new information that you come across that should be registered mnemonically. Now this is thought about how your understand what the building blocks of mnemonics are (= logical fashion/visual fashion/visual-moving-journey fashion/creative/humour fashion) and transcribing them to the idea of how one processes information.
—> now perform a hack on it..
hacking mindset is about sticking to one piece of information and having fun with it and then moving on to another interesting one and then linking the two together.. If they link mnemonically, that is Storytelling..
- Muthu