Published on 12, July, 2020
Most people I know like watching television or listening to music, but those are no good for me. I’m more of a quiet person who sticks to herself. I am very sensitive to sounds and even on quiet I find listening to the television or a song makes my ears feel like they’re bleeding.
So instead I make my own fun and entertainment. Reading is one of them but I also keep busy by doing cooking as well. Where I live we have an old Rayburn oven and the cakes from it are mouth wateringly delicious! I spend a lot of time in the bake house, and also by the lake where I sit and watch the fish which surprisingly is something I do a lot now.
What do you do for fun?
I get great enjoyment from learning extra details about things that I'm nerdy about - sort of filling in missing bits of my nerd-jigsaw of the universe & everything. This can happen in museums, watching tv, accidentally finding things on youtube etc. I can literally feel the flush through my neurons as the old stuff gets refreshed & augmented. I realise more and more that I am 100% visually driven - almost all data comes through my eyes. Seeing how things work or fit together really makes my brain fire on all cylinders.
My wife thinks it's odd that I watch youtube on 2x speed and still absorb it all - but I'm filtering all of the dead words from the story - I only hear the technical facts & figures.
I recently saw a cool youtube on survival bias...they had budget to put extra protection on planes in WW2. So they looked at where planes were usually shot a lot, and they put extra protection there, but this didn't help... then a clever guy said: you know, I think the places where lots of hits are taken are actually fine, I think we should put extra protection in places where surviving airplanes didn't get shot a lot, because probably that's just a coincidence, they wer lucky not to be shot there, and the ones that did get shot in these places probably didn't even make it home... and so they did and lots more planes came back...
Another one, a bit silly: the cargo cults in the pacific islands, new religions from islanders that build mock airstrips in the jungle in the hope that the ww2 airplanes with corned beef and chocolate would come back to supply them. They thought the American soldiers that came and abandoned them after the war were the spirits of ancestors bringing them stuff, and they wanted more of that...
That's like me with reading! I skip the 'white noise' and take the parts I find interesting in. I wish that I could read even faster still
That is so interesting! I'm not very technical sadly and don't see things very visually I don't think. I have trouble understanding things. It's great that you get enjoyment from all that though :) I also like museums, I love looking at things from long ago.