Hiii. I’ve been thinking about how to respond to your original text. I know this probably isn’t the response you’re hoping for, but I am always really impressed by people that can use the most perfect analogies on the spot. My mind so does not work like that, and I wish that it did. So I’m diverting the conversation a bit by asking this, but do you have any tips on how to strengthen something like that? Or do you think it’s just one of those things you have or you don’t?
There’s a few tips I can give. The first one will be more practical, the second one is more hippie-like advice.
The first part is teaching. When people think of teaching, they think of teaching others. But it’s important to learn how to recognize what you don’t know, and teach/explain it to yourself in different ways until it makes sense. Once you find the one example that makes sense, all the other ones will too since you actually know what they mean now. That allows you to explain things in multiple ways, and also be able to apply your new understanding to tangential subjects.
From our talks, you’ve already begun doing this. Practice will make your thoughts flow easier. I’ve just been doing this as long as I can remember.
The second thing is learning how to let your feelings lead you to your memories. Usually when we try to remember something, we try to think about it. But as we get older, the amount of info we know becomes unmanageable. We can find recent memories and knowledge relatively quickly, but the longer back, the harder it gets. However, I’ve found that if you let your feelings guide you to your memories/knowledge, it drops you right where you need to be. It’s kinda weird, because in doing this, you have no context to where the memory or knowledge came from. You don’t know how/where/why you have this memory/knowledge, but you know it feels right.
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Oh, one other thing that helps is having someone who is good at asking questions. You’re actually really good at asking questions, so that’s why my writing/examples are especially good when talking to you.
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And one last thing (sorry for blowing up your phone). This is a question I often ask myself:
How would I explain a feeling to someone who has never experienced that same feeling before? So I search for the words or an example that somehow makes me feel the same way it did when it was happening. This recreation of that feeling through some other means is what art is.
Those are all really good tips! Especially the teaching one, I guess I have done that without really knowing I’ve been doing it. Thanks for taking the time to write all of that out for me. 🙂 I’m going to try these & exercise more awareness when doing so. I always feel like my thoughts are more educated than the things I actually say.
I should be thanking you for asking me about my thought process! It’s something that I’ve done naturally that I never stopped to think about what I was actually doing. Having to explain it to you, I’ve learned alot about myself.
Happy to help a friend 🙂
[Tangential Thought:
Since art is anything that recreates a feeling through some other means, any combination of words that causes the reader to feel something should be considered poetry.]
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