Things I'm proud of myself for - #3
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silveradeptThe prompt continues - yet another thing that I can be proud of myself for, without qualifications or comparisons. These things are hard for me to come up with - they shouldn’t be, and they shouldn’t be for anyone wanting to follow in this prompt’s footsteps. So, here’s number 3.
#3 - I have a talent of tying together things that at first glance seem to have nothing to do with each other.
This is probably the talent that you, the LiveJournal audience, sees exercised most regularly. From myriad sources, with myriad points of view, a narrative, although not always cohesive, emerges. Jokes are made, refrained from being made, and fly under the radar excepting for a few people who’ve seen the same sorts of things I have. (Or those who are bold enough to ask what the hell I’m going on about.) The link-stringing exercise that I use as my stand-in for, y’know, original thought, lets my brain run in odd ways, make connections that might hinge on a single sentence in one of the links that another picks up on. It can be about free association, sometimes. It can be about putting things that oppose each other next to each other. It can be following a train of thought backwards or forwards, making several improbable leaps of illogic, but coming to the right answer. (Done that to a few people when answering trivia questions. Asking me “How do you know that?” sometimes is a “I just do.” and sometimes is a fascinating trip through memories that are weirdly associated. It’s a jungle up here in this head.)
This talent comes in handy in other places, too - it’s very good for putting things like religions side-by-side and making comparisons about their messages, deities, practices, and other such things. Concepts and ideas don’t usually have one-to-one correspondences, but bridges can be made between this and that. Someone on the far right may not understand that someone on the far left is championing the same idea (or may understand it totally, and is aiming for their version to be the one adopted). Lots of people may not realize that they’re all talking about the same thing, just in different terms. This talent really helps to translate between people of different professions who are supposed to work together. It lets you speak the native language of both and suggest improvements for both.
This entry shows that both small and great things are worth being proud of - so take the small ones with the big ones. While searching for the Great and Grand Things to be proud of, there’s a lot of smaller things that are just as good, and they’re right there in front of you. Don’t get caught thinking that you have to have great things - it’s why I stalled out on the prompt when first given the choice. Now, it may take a gentle nudging from someone else for some of us to see the small bits, but it’s worth getting. Occasionally, a sincere attention-whoring is what we all need.
#3 - I have a talent of tying together things that at first glance seem to have nothing to do with each other.
This is probably the talent that you, the LiveJournal audience, sees exercised most regularly. From myriad sources, with myriad points of view, a narrative, although not always cohesive, emerges. Jokes are made, refrained from being made, and fly under the radar excepting for a few people who’ve seen the same sorts of things I have. (Or those who are bold enough to ask what the hell I’m going on about.) The link-stringing exercise that I use as my stand-in for, y’know, original thought, lets my brain run in odd ways, make connections that might hinge on a single sentence in one of the links that another picks up on. It can be about free association, sometimes. It can be about putting things that oppose each other next to each other. It can be following a train of thought backwards or forwards, making several improbable leaps of illogic, but coming to the right answer. (Done that to a few people when answering trivia questions. Asking me “How do you know that?” sometimes is a “I just do.” and sometimes is a fascinating trip through memories that are weirdly associated. It’s a jungle up here in this head.)
This talent comes in handy in other places, too - it’s very good for putting things like religions side-by-side and making comparisons about their messages, deities, practices, and other such things. Concepts and ideas don’t usually have one-to-one correspondences, but bridges can be made between this and that. Someone on the far right may not understand that someone on the far left is championing the same idea (or may understand it totally, and is aiming for their version to be the one adopted). Lots of people may not realize that they’re all talking about the same thing, just in different terms. This talent really helps to translate between people of different professions who are supposed to work together. It lets you speak the native language of both and suggest improvements for both.
This entry shows that both small and great things are worth being proud of - so take the small ones with the big ones. While searching for the Great and Grand Things to be proud of, there’s a lot of smaller things that are just as good, and they’re right there in front of you. Don’t get caught thinking that you have to have great things - it’s why I stalled out on the prompt when first given the choice. Now, it may take a gentle nudging from someone else for some of us to see the small bits, but it’s worth getting. Occasionally, a sincere attention-whoring is what we all need.
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