Right Path...

Consider this...

You are all set to go for a long journey..and all the (so called) experts tell(ask/advise/instruct) you to take path-A..but you decide to take path-B ..
(may be...Seagull in you sparked...and you ended up following path-B).

You’re probably stupid.

But if you get lucky, and discover (for instance) a pot of gold along the *stupid* path..people will call you a leader.
You’ll still be stupid...but fewer people will feel the need to point that out...

When you’re in charge..there can not be much of rewards in following the expert's path. The best you'll achieve is the label “competent”.
The faintest of praise for you could be...“XYZ is competent”.
To me it sounds like...barely better than being incompetent.

Fortunately (or unfortunately, as the case may be)..life is too complex to know for sure if taking path-A (or path-B) would work out best. Even the experts often get it wrong.

Having said that, this guarantees that a fair number of stupid people would be judged great leaders. They will take the wrong path and things will turn out right for them...

oh..btw, how are we defining stupidity (and who is doing this for us) anyways?
(thinking..)

Imagination...

I have a feedback that every other day I come up with a hypothesis that sounds correct(to me) and that ends up having an added advantage of being totally impossible to verify(for others).

That’s almost as good as knowledge for me…(yet another hypothesis it is..)

New hypothesis I have is.. a person’s need for social interaction is inversely related(or proportional) to the quality of his imagination...(special emphasis on the word need)..

What I mean to say is…if you happen to have an excellent imagination…you might enjoy people, but..at the same time.. you’ll be equally happy being alone with your thoughts for long stretches..

In other words…(and to keep it blunt) *you fascinate yourself*.

All this being said with the assumption that…people have widely different powers(or levels) of imagination.

To me, this seems to be a possibility. People are all over the world…with every possible mental ability…

Whatever is happening inside the mind of a person with the worst possible imagination on earth is clearly very different from what’s happening in the mind of the most creative…Just in case…if you happen to have no imagination (of whatsoever kind)..you’ll need to get all of your stimulations from the environment..mostly from other people, or at least TV shows about other people. You turn out to be one of those talkative ..babbling types.

You wouldn’t want to be left alone with your “thoughts” for more than two minutes…you can’t meditate…etc etc..because your empty-thoughtness would scare you to death…

As a workaround…you have to keep your mind engaged 100% of the times…and not giving it a chance to “think”.

On the other end of the spectrum…if your imagination is extraordinary/creative… interaction with other people will just get in the way of incredible/enjoyable experiences you could otherwise be having entirely in your head…

btw…where do you lie on this imagination-spectrum..?

(I had this post since long.. but couldn't get time to post it..things kept me too busy)
Edited: 18-May-2007.