i8myegoSenior Contributor
Non-linear thinking
Hello dear strangers,
I was having a discussion with (OMG, everytime I press @ and try to go back to the letters it adds a space... Om Om Om.) last night and woke up with some thoughts I'd like to share.
My neurospicyness is diagnosed as ADHD which is a terrible label for what my experience of it has been but that's another story. Since my diagnosis I have come to understand that I don't think about the world like a normie does (love you normies). My thinking is not linear it is non-linear.
The lazy way to explain that is that it is circular thinking, that we dance around a topic, scoping it out from all angles before finally getting to the point. What it actually is... take a relationship between two people. Person A and person B. Linear thinking draws a straight line between A and B it says that's it and moves on. A non-linear thinker sees A and B draws that line and then sees AB (i.e. the relationship) as a third point to be included and draws a triangle. A linear thinker looks at the triangle and needs to be sat down like a baby and be walked through a long tedious learning curve to get to this conclusion.
A non-linear thinker sees more of the big picture which makes pattern recognition much easier. It may seem like we are pulling information out of thin air, which can be unsettling to people. This is what makes us so creative and "out of the box' thinkers. The person who invented the wheel definitely had ADHD, lol.
Ok, background done, the thought I woke up with this morning.
People talk about spiralling out of control but nobody ever mentions spiralling into control.
It doesn't have to be that we start from a point in time and go upwards into a spiral. We can be at the open end (top) of a spiral and identify that point at the bottom is what we want and work our way towards it in a circular downward motion.
For me that looks like.
Do a big, nasty, messy lap of that distant point. Take a break, process and recharge. When reinvigorated do another lap, this one is smaller less nasty, less messy because we have some (not much but some) understanding of what is going on and (like the frog that gets boiled alive because he can't feel the smallest incremental increases in temprature) we have been slightly desensitised by our previous experience. Complete that second tighter lap and pause, process, reinvigorated.
And repeat.
Each time this process occurs the circle gets tighter, knowledge increases, fear decrease. Until, finally one day you hit your mark, wondering what all the fuss was about.
You have successfully spiraled into your dream state (and then start looking for something else to stress about. And the process starts again).
This thought is literally 4 hours old so please do critic it as harsh as you feel comfortable doing.
Thank you all.
