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Two-dimentional mind...
Posted 13:24, Monday 08 May 06.
Some people, like my mother and brother, have a two-dimensional mind.
When they come to consider a comment, an idea or a thought, they tend to view it from their unique perspective. We could draw a comparison with an object. Say... a cube!
What I see is in three dimensions, i.e. the cube in itself. What they see is but one face, i.e. a square which is two-dimensional. Their problem is that they cannot move around it. They don't want to. They are literally glued to their viewpoint, or visual angle, and stand stubbornly firm. They don't know, thay cannot conceive that the square is merely one side of the cube.
The same goes with life. Everything they view is biased by their persistent prejudices. They cannot evolve because they don't look around them. They cannot tolerate a thought which differs from their's. They don't understand that people might see things differently.
The best way to extricate onself from such a mental swamp would be to meet other people from different backgrounds. LISTEN to what they have to say. Not just contemplate one's navel.
But that... is beyond their reach!
Comment 1:
You make a very valid point there.
It is precisely this "3D" aspect to personalities and situations that makes them interesting! And of course it "broadens" ones mind...
Posted by Nigel, 15:01, Monday 08 May 06
Comment 2:
I reccommend travelling. It helped me a lot! :) Seriously, it is a problem that many other people share. It's easier to clinch to one's certainties and forget what happens outside, rather than go into confrontation with the risk to see that you have been wrong! I hate this "easy way" of living, actually I really hate all the "easy routes", it's just playing fake with yourself. And after all "Only stupid people don't change their ideas"
Posted by Lox, 09:15, Tuesday 09 May 06
Comment 3:
'Hate' is perhaps too strong a word, is it not? (But then, you're Italian! As such you love superlatives...)
Posted by Sheri, 21:40, Thursday 11 May 06