SHI said in reference to this post:
I love reading this blog post again and again…Robert you’re sheer genius. Never met a white man who understands the Indian psyche so up close and personally. What’s the deal? I’m sure you have traveled to India, c’mon admit it.
Nope, never been there. Not sure how I do it. I used to write fiction, you know, so maybe I am just good at figuring out other places. And I do have a genius IQ.
One thing I have noticed that I am very good at is “putting it all together,” or “seeing the whole picture,” “making sense of it all, or “adding it all up,” or “what’s really going on here. Really it is just generating an analytical theory about some set of real life data – a theory that explains what is really happening here “behind the scenes” so to speak. A good analogy would be to symbolism in art. Sure, on the surface it just likes a crow feeding a young crow (surface analysis, generally observational) but what that really means is XYZ (deep or explanatory analysis).
Of course this requires using things the PC idiots hate like common sense, age-old wisdom, stereotypes, patterns, generalizations and lack of need for scientific proof in order to discover obvious observational facts. It also requires an incredible amount of background knowledge in all sorts of things, but I am starting to get a good store of that now that I am in my 50’s. You really do get wiser as you get older, mostly because you can now “put it all together,” and figure out “what is “really going on here” (not what seems to be going on on the surface but what is really happening in terms of deep analysis or a deeper theoretical level.
It requires very analytical thinking along with a lot of analogy and also you need to be able to see and recognize patterns and draw inferences from them and then see other patterns and compare pattern to pattern.
I suppose you could call it a “holistic approach” to looking at the world.
