Mind mapping???? How can we map a mind? When we only use 10% of it, shouldn't it be mind exploration? As we keep a list or make a job cloud or connected-with-lines colorful hodge-podge we are using the 10% of the brain and making an avenue for receipt of more and more of the areas of our mind to open and used. Maps are for exploring and going where you haven't been or can't remember how to get back there.
I experienced a new thing tonight. I typically absorb, drink in and welcome any kind of class, training or new idea. A presentation was scheduled on "Body Language". I've heard this before but it's been a while so I thought ... "Why not" I use the refresher and I always share what I've learned at home. I went to the class and was greeted by a smart mouthed young lady at the receptionist desk who flippantly told me where the classroom was located. She didn't realize that if I had known I wouldn't have asked. Another smart mouthed young lady was screaming directions at the 200 or so students who were piling into the room with no chairs. Finally two smart mouthed stand up comics from Indy started the presentation of body language and accused the audience of being stupid or lame or ignorant seven times in two minutes. That was enough. The young man sitting next to me and I looked at each other and said simultaneously "I've got better things to do" and we left at the next opportunity. I believe that this incident was critical thinking in practice. I may actually be getting to the point where I don't believe everything that is "taught" as gospel. I am cataloging enough experience and expertise of my own to make a rational, unobtrusive, personal decision and stand on it. Someday I may even be able to articulate that it in a heated discussion without appearing emotional or irrational. I believe this was a good day. I went home, shut myself in my bedroom, spread my homework around me, moved the modem and laptop to my room so that I would have internet access and worked on the things I think are important. June Cleaver died today and maybe she died at my house too. The dishes are not washed. The bills are not paid. I didn't walk the dog. I did my homework. No one is going to fail this semester except me, so I'm going to address that issue and that will be good.
*I did have to change the foot dressing when Dennis lumbered into my room at 12:30 saying that his foot was "leaking". Hell yes it was leaking, the entire dressing was on the bottom of his foot and the wound was totally exposed! So I had to fix that, but it wasn't going to do any good to scream and yell about it. I changed it and told him to have someone help him put on his socks. I can only address one issue at a time.
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