My pre-weekend encouragement to all of you:
Get out.
I recently watched a Tedx Talks, the speaker was a 12 year old autistic kid. I, at first, thought he was just a hyperactive 12 year old kid. Then, he started talking about quantum mechanics... Then he said what he came to say, "Stop learning, start thinking, and create." He came to talk about how some of the greatest minds, which he doesn't believe were great minds, had epiphanies when they lost their option of learning. When they stopped learning, was when they underwent their own individual thought process to create something unique unto themselves. It was very inspiring, this 12 year old autistic kid, whose doctors said wouldn't learn to talk, read, or write when he was 5. Maybe you should just watch the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq-FOOQ1TpE
I heard a quote recently, not sure by whom or if I've already blogged about it... (haha, self NERD bomb). "I would trade my cleverness for bewilderment." The same aspect, in a sense, that Jacob (above mentioned) is talking about. View everything as if you've never seen it before. I, personally, am wandering through life in search of moments of 'AWE'. I should dose myself a bit then, because that quote puts everything at awe.
So, all in all, I want whoever the hell reads this thing I randomly write in to Get out! Go somewhere you've never been before. Follow your gut feeling. Try your best to not be jaded in the things you see, the people that surround you. Don't let biases turn you away from what you happen upon. Don't ask your phone for directions, actually don't ask your phone for anything, try not to pay attention to it. Don't be clever, be in wonder. Think about what you see and get creative. Who knows what will happen, who you will meet, the ideas you will think about.
"I know, I'm a doctor too."-Dr. Steven Brule. Maybe comment on your experience, maybe not. Maybe fart in a glass and smell it to better get your own brew. Smooches and farts.
With udder funk,
J.R.D.M.
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