I’m sitting at my desk trying to solve this math problem right in front of me. “Just think”, I say to myself. It wasn’t a difficult problem, but my brain was making the correction connections in order to solve it. Over the course of an hour, my annoyance grew until I gave up and looked at the solution. The problem I missed was very abstract and, although the solution was easy to understand, it required a large leap in logic in order to be solved. “How are people able to think of these solutions”, I thought to myself. Little did I know, from here on out, this question would plague me for a very long amount of time. Solving problems in school is easy, you’re taught to memorize the solution and you can just apply that solution to the same problems which you are given on a quiz. However, outside of school, I had the hobby of going on the internet in search of puzzles and other brain teasers. As this question lingered in my head, I would surprise myself by randomly coming to epiphanies on challenging problems. Seemingly, these ideas would pop up out of know where. One thing about me is that I strive to understand everything around me. This makes life difficult at times because my brain is constantly trying to churn solutions to incredibly abstract problems such as this. However, this trait also defines a large part of my character and interests. This catalyst, alongside small events, led to my interest in Epistemology and Cognitive Science. This blog is a way of sharing my findings with you guys as well as additional life lessons I learn along the way. I hope not only to share my sparse wisdom with you, but also improve and reflect upon my current beliefs. I also want to write with more prose. I’m terrible right now 😦
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” – Voltaire
What I think 