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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Limitless

Have you every thought about how much stuff you know? How much stuff you remember? We start learning as soon as we pop outta the womb and it never stops. Your brain is like a never satiated hungry monster: it just eats and eats and eats - stakes, pizza, green peas, carrots, that exotic Hawaiian dish - and never stops. And it keeps everything. Sure some stuff spills over the side if you're not careful and you might loose some crumbs of that delicious cupcake. But it takes it all in. You learn grammar, history, memorize numbers, authors and how to spell words. You take at least 2 years leaning a language in highschool, but does that mean your language capacity is filled at two languages? Nope. You learned Spanish in highschool? You could go to college and learn German if you wanted to. You don't have to erase some of the phone numbers you've memorized from your memory in order to have room for the table of elements. You can handle that too. Want to memorize the entire book of Romans? Heck, bring it on. And you can even keep Foot Prints on the Sand and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and that Emily Dickinson poem you learned in 10th grade lit. Oh, and all those songs you listen to on the radio? Sure, we got room for that. Lyrics, music, poems, you name it. Pile 'em all in. 

And don't worry. No matter what else you shove into me I can take it. And on top of that, you'll always remember that 2 + 2 = 4. Heck you'll even remember that 8 x 8 = 64, 5 x 12 = 60 and the square root of 144 is 12. You'll never forget that Hitler was a bad German and started WW2, the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, Isaac Newton discovered gravity, we beat the British at Yorktown, "Four score and seven years ago", and that 8 planets orbit our sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. (Sorry, Pluto.)

Eat it up. It's good for you. Don't worry. You're not just an 8 gig brain. You're not even just a 64 gig brain. It's limitless.

It won't stop till you stop, so why stop?

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