My autodidacting has given me a mental reflex which attempts to construct a gears-level explanation of almost any claim I hear. For example, when listening to “Listen to Your Heart” by Roxette:
Listen to your heart,
There’s nothing else you can do
I understood what she obviously meant and simultaneously found myself subvocalizing “she means all other reasonable plans are worse than listening to your heart—not that that’s literally all you can do”.
This reflex is really silly and annoying in the wrong context—I’ll fix it soon. But it’s pretty amusing that this is now how I process claims by default, and I think it usually serves me well.
My autodidacting has given me a mental reflex which attempts to construct a gears-level explanation of almost any claim I hear. For example, when listening to “Listen to Your Heart” by Roxette:
I understood what she obviously meant and simultaneously found myself subvocalizing “she means all other reasonable plans are worse than listening to your heart—not that that’s literally all you can do”.
This reflex is really silly and annoying in the wrong context—I’ll fix it soon. But it’s pretty amusing that this is now how I process claims by default, and I think it usually serves me well.