what i imagine it looks like inside of our heads –
along with
the scientific explanation for how this all works.
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“it usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.”
-steven wright
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It just might be that way, for sure, after all no one knows. B. F. Skinner said the brain was like a little black box, no one knows what is in there or how things in there really work, all we know is that something comes in, called stimulus, and something comes out, a response…
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right –
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I’m pretty sure this is about right. The rest—how it’s set up, the train rails, frontiers, castles and wiring— is all a great mystery. I know it’s a great machine. This was fun. Thanks for sharing. (Oh yeah, I’m sure there are castles in there. For day dreaming…) xoxo
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ooh, I believer you are correct!
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I don’t doubt that at all. Most writers are readers, after all.
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it clearly goes together –
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Clearly!
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I think Steven Wright is correct, Beth.
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it seems so )
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A delightful idea.
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it works for me!)
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Yes, why shouldn’t it be this way!
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😂
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))
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It is interesting how the mind works. Teaching kids reminds me how much background knowledge plays on the how and why we do things… this past year a student and I played Wordle. We’d compare our solutions and share how we solved each puzzle. It was always interesting to see how she thought – sometimes it was logical and sometimes impulsive. But how we solved the daily puzzle was based on our ‘mousetrap like’ minds. Thanks for reminding me.. stay curious and have an amazing Friday. Oh, do you play Wordle?
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you are so very right! I don’t play wordle but I have gotten into the nyt’s new ‘connections’ daily puzzles where you have to find ways to connect and put words into groups of some sorts. it’s fascinating. I also love the nyt crosswords, jigsaws, and sudokus
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Perfect❣️
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thanks!
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Eventually some of the pieces to our MouseTrap got lost or broken and the game was eventually tossed.
Something similar seems to be happening inside of my head. :(
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we might need a bit of duck tape here and there, along with way
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super glue
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I sometimes imagine I hear my brain whirring. It’s a lot like the Mousetrap game indeed.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I so agree –
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I wonder how many gears we have in our heads? … my main gears seem to be the reverse gear and the sideways gear …
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Mine need a bit of piling from time to time
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Yes!!!
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❤️
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The trap in my brain is broken. It no longer traps anything. Things just go round and round and …
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Sometimes they get stopped up
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oh, lovely games!
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Yes!
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Gosh, I can only second that. When I start writing, it often takes me a page or less before I put the book away and grab paper and pen…
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It definitely is connected
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Writers write. But, yes, they must also read.
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So important
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My writing starts with my reading. As to what my brain looks like… Too terrified to know!
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Some things are better not to know )
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My thesis adviser wrote a beautiful book based on Emerson; First We Read: Then We Write
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It makes so much sense
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Must be right – because everything Steven Wright says always makes sense to me!😉
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Wright is right about writing!
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Remember Crazy Clock?
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Yes!
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anything Steven Wright says is gospel to me :)
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wright is right
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hahahah :) true
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As soon as I get to Oz, I am getting my brain tuned up.
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good call
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I’ve always imagined my brain to resemble a jigsaw, with one or two missing pieces!
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Love that!
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Unrelated: am I the only one who thought the game Mouse Trap would be a lot more fun than it really was?
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probably not, and it took a lot longer to set up than to play it)
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Perfect quote.
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thanks-
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