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Gaining a tolerance for chaos
When we face complexity in life,we feel
subtly discouraged before we even try
anything. More and more people in overheated environment will tempted to opt out. They will develop a greater
taste for ease and comfort, they will increasingly settle on simplified ideas of reality and conventional ways of thinking. They will fall prey to seductive formulas that offer quick and easy knowledge. They will loose a taste for developing a skill that requires time,
because it can hurt our self esteem in the initial phase of learning a skill, as we are made so aware of our awkwardness. Such people will rail against the world and blames others for their problems, when in truth they simply cannot handle the challenges of engaging with complexity. In trying to simplify their mental lives, they disconnect themselves from reality and neautralise all the powers developed by the human brains over so many millions of years. This desire for what is simple and easy infects all of us, often in a ways we are mostly
unaware of. We must learn how to quite our anxiety we feel whenever we are confronted with anything that seems complex or chaotic. In moment of crisis we must develop the habit of maintaining our cool and never overreact. What we are doing is gaining a tolerance and even a taste for chaotic moments, training ourselves to entertain several possibilities or solutions.
The problems that technology present us is that it increases the amount of information at our disposal, but slowly degrades the power of our memory to retain it. Tasks that used to exercise the brain remembering phone numbers, doing simple calculation, navigating and remembering streets in a city - are now performed for us and like any other muscle the brain can go flabby from disuse. To counteract this, in our spare time we should not simply look for entertainment and distraction but we should take hobbies - a game, a musical instrument, a foreign language that brings pleasure but also offer us the chance to strengthen our memory capacities and flexibility of our brain. In doing so, we can train ourselves to process large amount of information without feeling anxious or overtaxed. We will able to respond faster and more effectively than others. What seemed difficult to us before will now seemed to be a simple fluid situation can be handled with relative ease.
© Shagun
subtly discouraged before we even try
anything. More and more people in overheated environment will tempted to opt out. They will develop a greater
taste for ease and comfort, they will increasingly settle on simplified ideas of reality and conventional ways of thinking. They will fall prey to seductive formulas that offer quick and easy knowledge. They will loose a taste for developing a skill that requires time,
because it can hurt our self esteem in the initial phase of learning a skill, as we are made so aware of our awkwardness. Such people will rail against the world and blames others for their problems, when in truth they simply cannot handle the challenges of engaging with complexity. In trying to simplify their mental lives, they disconnect themselves from reality and neautralise all the powers developed by the human brains over so many millions of years. This desire for what is simple and easy infects all of us, often in a ways we are mostly
unaware of. We must learn how to quite our anxiety we feel whenever we are confronted with anything that seems complex or chaotic. In moment of crisis we must develop the habit of maintaining our cool and never overreact. What we are doing is gaining a tolerance and even a taste for chaotic moments, training ourselves to entertain several possibilities or solutions.
The problems that technology present us is that it increases the amount of information at our disposal, but slowly degrades the power of our memory to retain it. Tasks that used to exercise the brain remembering phone numbers, doing simple calculation, navigating and remembering streets in a city - are now performed for us and like any other muscle the brain can go flabby from disuse. To counteract this, in our spare time we should not simply look for entertainment and distraction but we should take hobbies - a game, a musical instrument, a foreign language that brings pleasure but also offer us the chance to strengthen our memory capacities and flexibility of our brain. In doing so, we can train ourselves to process large amount of information without feeling anxious or overtaxed. We will able to respond faster and more effectively than others. What seemed difficult to us before will now seemed to be a simple fluid situation can be handled with relative ease.
© Shagun
