The Mind
Read the following sentence 5 or 6 times.
A bird in the hand
is worth two in the
the bush
I have always been interested in how the mind works. Intrigued by the theory that we only use a relatively small percentage of our brain power. What does the above sentence have to do with that interest? Well, just how we perceive things, and how some people can perceive things that others cannot.
Movies like the Phenomenon and Rain Man have always made me long to have the abilities without the repercussions of the characters in the movie. I certainly would not want Autism, and only a very few Autistics have some savant ability. Not at all a fair trade-off. Never-the-less to be able to absorb knowledge like John Travolta's character in Phenomenon would just be awesome.
So what am I getting at? How long did it take you to recognize the extra "the" in the sentence I asked you to read? I guess what I am thinking is that we do not always look at things as closely as we should. It just amazes me that spacing and wording can make incorrect things seem correct. We convince ourselves nothing is wrong.
A bird in the hand
is worth two in the
the bush
I have always been interested in how the mind works. Intrigued by the theory that we only use a relatively small percentage of our brain power. What does the above sentence have to do with that interest? Well, just how we perceive things, and how some people can perceive things that others cannot.
Movies like the Phenomenon and Rain Man have always made me long to have the abilities without the repercussions of the characters in the movie. I certainly would not want Autism, and only a very few Autistics have some savant ability. Not at all a fair trade-off. Never-the-less to be able to absorb knowledge like John Travolta's character in Phenomenon would just be awesome.
So what am I getting at? How long did it take you to recognize the extra "the" in the sentence I asked you to read? I guess what I am thinking is that we do not always look at things as closely as we should. It just amazes me that spacing and wording can make incorrect things seem correct. We convince ourselves nothing is wrong.
