Buckminster Fuller had an incredible mind! I also wonder about the chicken/egg thing. Have you heard of "commonplacing"? Jefferson, Darwin, and Newton all practiced it. and I wrote about it a couple months back:
The capacity to remember very long passages is something we think of as impossible or ultra-uncommon today, but I think it was very common to hold a LOT of energy in one's mind. Today, we can process at a much higher level of analysis and synthesis, but back then our mental prowess went to remembering words, which plants were poisonous, and pathways to and from places, things we don't think much (or any) about today.
Great post! It brought me back to a study about paper journals used for mood tracking Here’s the link, it has some wonderful, artistry in there and how this intertwines with wellbeing https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/147464830/flexible_and_mindful_self_tracking.pdf
Thanks Kirstine ... I've bookmarked that link since I'm traveling right now.
A good and interesting post
Thank you for including my post!
Thank YOU!
Buckminster Fuller had an incredible mind! I also wonder about the chicken/egg thing. Have you heard of "commonplacing"? Jefferson, Darwin, and Newton all practiced it. and I wrote about it a couple months back:
https://goatfury.substack.com/p/commonplacing
Andrew, I try to not miss your posts but did miss this one. I'm off to check it out now. Thanks for the link.
I write an awful lot! But I'm sure you'll enjoy the commonplacing one.
YES. Enough to repost it ... including a question that seems to call both of us ... how did ancient thinkers think without notebooks?
The capacity to remember very long passages is something we think of as impossible or ultra-uncommon today, but I think it was very common to hold a LOT of energy in one's mind. Today, we can process at a much higher level of analysis and synthesis, but back then our mental prowess went to remembering words, which plants were poisonous, and pathways to and from places, things we don't think much (or any) about today.