Greatest Advice to Myself
Filing. It's what our brains do with information. They quickly analyze and file information away into the proper places. In our modern society where we are provided copious amounts of stimuli every single day, our brains have to quickly file and sometimes generalize in order to understand everything the eyes see, ears hear, and hands feel. And when studying psychology in undergrad I started to understand more how the brain works and just how quickly it can process so much without us even realizing it. Books such as Blink also talk in depth about this process happening in the brain. As humans, the world is a complex place we try so very much to understand. Due to this complex nature we develop coping mechanisms which sometimes have negative consequences- prejudice and stereotypes and "box like" thinking. We get so use to putting everything into a category with defined rules and behaviors as our mind expects. So how does this process relate to me here in Malawi in develo...