Brain

I am interested in the brain. Perhaps, the reason is that it is different among us. I am curious and wanna explore. I think it's begun when I was in high school. I don’t know why I wanted to go physically into another’s brain. I wanna know what they thought or what they were thinking. As you have known, I struggled in class. I wondered why my friends were so clever and brilliant. That was the initial reason I have this idea. Now it is still a question. No one tells me what they are thinking. The truth is I haven't asked them yet. I solely wonder, ask and answer by myself. And to be honest, I am not too passionate to go into Brain's research.  

Let me tell you this thing. I used to have absolute scores (10/10) at university. I know scores aren’t the only means of assessing everything. But at least it could measure what we invested in a subject or what we understood. To gain that perfect score, I looked back at my thought process. I see my brain worked so simply. It is too simple as if I can do it, everyone can do it as well. Hopefully, my work was similarly connected with a sentence of Isaac Newton: "Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, not in the multiplicity and confusion of things". I asked simple questions and answer them by myself. I even found solutions in ways very weird or lazy.

Go into more detail, at the beginning of class, I set a goal. I must have a perfect score. Perfection means no mistake even it is really small. Obviously, I felt a bit pressured but I wanted to challenge myself. I then tried harder. Sometimes I was stuck and then found solutions. I was happy. Probably unfortunate,  that solution wasn't my expectation. It was repeated again and again until I eventually got answers. Most importantly, consistent practice, to complete an exam with the shortly required time. It not only understanding but also competent skills. In the end, I got my aim. 

A tip for you when you are stuck in finding a solution is only to look at that solution. Put your solution in front of you and look at that. Just look and do nothing else, even don't need to think. You can probably have some ideas to solve that (As Sheldon Cooper does but I prefer sitting).

Come back to the initial topic,  I also wondered to get this score, what my friends did? Is it the identical process as me? Or if we all accomplish solutions for a question, why she or he wouldn't think this thing or that thing is important but I do.  I think this is a key to solve but they don't, etc. I found my own answer. A person has his or her own way to learn in this way or another. It's definitely complicated to tell in detail every single step. The brain is mystery and magic. We purely should do our best to gain our goals. 

I restrict myself to think about others. I am a human being and I am an individual in this society. I also distribute into our diversity and variety. My mind and my brain also devote partly. Why should I think so much? I remind myself I have a beautiful mind (A movie of the same name is really interesting. I highly recommend you).

P.S: As I've mentioned earlier, I used to find the solution in an awkward way. We can find solutions somehow as long as getting the final result. Nevertheless, I want to be more efficient and obtain more. Thus, I modified myself. 

In particular, I think my method was applied extremely passively. I feel like I waited for books or the internet to explain my problems. 

I remind myself that if I cannot understand something to solve problems, I must actively find answers for that unclear information such as reading books containing that information, searching Wikipedia for that definition rather than neglecting it, and only know them when books or any other sources indicate. 

It leads to that confusion and uncertainty are avoidable for a long time later. I feel very embarrassed and uncomfortable with the previous behaviors. I must get the solution more appropriately. Furthermore, It creates an important skill that I am not afraid of facing difficulties to any information. You know, because it is far easier once someone directly points out for you.

That's all I would like to present through this small talk. Improve every day regardless of a little thing.         

Incheon, March 28, 2020