The reason of coincidence!!

What does coincident mean? Is it just something that happens without any planning and calculation? Or it refers to something that your subconscious mind has already planned?



Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Few years earlier to that he had addressed a speech defending ‘the fair play for cuba committee’, of which he was a member. After he killed the president, some investigators reversed his speech. Turns out that when he says, ’and the fair play for cuba’ becomes, ‘I wish to kill president’. Some people call it, his subconscious confession of the crime he was going to commit. Well, it’s not that. If anybody says ‘and the fair play for cuba’ and reverses it, it sounds like ‘I wish to kill president’ to some extent. Similarly the sentence said by Neil Armstrong ‘a small step for man’, sounds like ‘man will spacewalk’ when heard in reverse.

These are mere coincidences. There are many sentences which make literal sense when spoken forwards and also reversing the sound of it. One of that is, ‘Ooh! you sniff turkey fat’, which on reversing sounds like, ’happy birthday to you’. Words or sentences that sound the same when pronounced forwards and reversing its sound are called phonetic palindrome, e.g. ‘say yes’.

There’s a poem by Karsten Johansson which in itself is a palindrome. 

It goes like:

                    

                                                              When I wonder why

                                                  What’s never been’s never been so 

                                                         We would lie when we say,

                                                     “Yes you know we all love you”

                                                    What’s never been’s never been so

                                                           Hell we are nowhere now.

Phonetic Palindrome Poem


phonetic pallindrome

One of the daily life coincidence things is hearing your name being called when it actually is not. Like hearing it in the sound of tap water, or phone’s ringtone, or hearing English words in songs that actually aren’t there. This is called ‘paridolia’. Check out this Bollywood song which sounds so ’english’ to someone knowing only English- May he poop(Bollywood song)

Paridolia is also seeing human faces when actually there aren’t any. 

Our brain understands patterns so well that it makes everything relatable. That’s the reason that we differentiate people’s faces even though all have same number of eyes, nose, etc. just by seeing once, whereas it becomes quite hard for us to do that for dogs, cats and other animals.

Our pattern loving mind finds patterns even in actual random things. When ‘Apple’ launched their shuffle feature in iPod, users often complained that the songs are not that random. So what apple did, they created a mathematical algorithm using pattern to recreate randomness. As Steve Jobs said, ”We are making it less random to make it feel it more random”.

This dancing spiderman image will sync up with any song you play simply because your brain wants it to sync up.

dancing spiderman

The reason behind our brain’s such behavior to make things comes because of ‘selection bias’ and ‘confirmation bias’.We select those things which we like. In dancing Spiderman’s case, we tend to neglect its moves where it doesn’t sync up and tend to get excited where it syncs. Also, two things seem linked when we want them to be linked often neglecting things against it.

These can be used to explain the coincident relations between famous movies and famous albums have. Like the one, syncing of ‘the wizard of oz ’ and ‘the dark side of moon’. Coincidences between famous people can also be explained by this. One famous coincidence is between President John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln. It is pretty cool in itself but it you are given large information about any two people, you can quite easily find 15-20 coincidences between them.

There are things that are rare in average but may not be rare on individuals considering their large number. One such thing is the fact that Walter Summerford was struck by lightning three times in his life and four years after his death, his gravestone was also struck by lightning. Well, chances of lightning striking humans is very low but the fact that lightning strikes earth 40-50 times every second, having an event like Summerford’s in 1000 years, among billions of people is not that unusual. Rather, it would be unusual to not have such an event (mathematically speaking).

Well, coincidences are our perception. They are an important feature of our pattern loving minds. So don’t get spooked out next time you hit a coincidence, because you reading this article is also a coincidence. 

 

This is not red!!

I see this red, and most probably you do too. But do you see what I see? Let's talk about it.

Colour is felt. We do not and cannot communicate the feeling of colour through our language. The above shown colour is defined red no matter how someone sees it. But anyone seeing it can be seeing something different but is bound to call it 'red'.

Suppose the first time when you could differentiate between colours, a person comes to you and says the above shown colour is red because it's been defined red by some great guy with some scientist-ish looks.He saw 'something different ' and named it red. Then somebody came who might have seen a different thing than that the scientist-ish guy might have seen but since he was told that it is called 'red', he began calling it red too. Similarly you saw this color, called it red because someone taught you that it is called red. But there's a complete possibility that all three people might have seen three different colours.

The difference in what we see and what we feel is called 'qualia'. Our inability to explain feelings in our language is called 'explanatory gap'. For example, we can tell someone that pain is caused due to firing of C-fibers, to someone who has never felt pain (suppose an alien). But still he cannot understand pain or feel it. 

Some philosophers say that the reason for an explanatory gap is our 'week' language. May be there's an alien race which communicates in such a language that allows them to feel colours without actually seeing them. May be some day our language will also be developed enough to do that. But for now there's no way to know what colour does each of us see.

I know it’s  frustrating to not find an answer but it’s okay. There are many animals that can be taught. Some  apes are even taught to use sign language. They can even communicate to  humans, but there's one thing no animal has ever done - asked a question. Asking is important. It lets us know about each other. So keep asking because it’s important.  

Ben Franklin law

                         Benjamin Franklin, known as the father of United states of America was a scientist, thinker,author, printer,political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster and a person with many more titles.It was his 'left brain guided by his right brain' that made him do that. He gave a psychology law that's known as Ben Franklin effect. But before moving to the law it is important to know about the right guided left brain. 
Actually,I consider such a guy an ultimate guy. Another such guy is Elon Musk. The right brain has ideas, a crave to do many things and on the other hand the left brain has the focus to take it to perfection. Such people are happy and successful. 

Well here're the Ben Franklin laws,

 "A person who has performed a favor for someone is more likely to do another favor for that person than they would be if they had received a favor from that person".

As David McRaney explains in lis book "You are now less dumb",

 'Many psychologists would explain the Benjamin Franklin effect through the lens of cognitive dissonance, a giant theory made up of thousands of studies which have pinpointed a menagerie of mental stumbling blocks including confirmation bias, hindsight bias, the backfire effect, the sunk cost fallacy, and many more, but as a general theory it describes something you experience every day.'





  

Think some more!!

In the previous post I talked about the different actions governed by different parts of the brain. Now, in some people one part of the brain is more active and in others the other part is more active . There are certain pros and cons to that .Now , why am I even discussing that ? You might think that ,okey , my 'this' part of brain is more active , and I do this ,I will be governed by my brain only . Than what's the point of discussing the goodness of other part ,which I can't achieve?

Well read this post till the end to know what you can , what you can't !


Scenarios where , right brained people are in advantage:-

Since right brained people think more of others than themselves , and prioritize their choices keeping in mind others' comfort , the other way to say this statement is that they are very alert!. What exactly right brained people do is that ,they keep thinking about their surroundings.They are very aware of what's happening. These are the kind of people who don't like to be surprised .
A right brained person is never hated or loved to the extreme , he/she is always liked since the actions of such kind of people are relative.
Such people have a control over their emotions and feelings . They hide their feelings and try to mould them according to the scenario in which they are in which makes them very less predictable .
Right brained people are craftsmen . They improvise instead of working hard .

On the other hand talking about left brained people , these kind of people are self-centered . Their priority is never relative to others .  They are always focussed to themselves and their stuff . They generally don't plan (think)rather they work, hard .As mentioned before , left brain-ies have a sense of actual choice .Whatever they do , they do it with full interest ,and rock it ! If a perfect right brainy is very alert , a left brainy is very hard worker . They are perfectionists .Since external factors don't influence left brain-ies ,they always are confident , about their skills , considering the amount of hard  work they have put into furnishing their shills .

Side note : Underconfidence and over-confidence are the traits of right brain .
When someone is overconfident , its the exaggeration of skills done by the right brain . Overconfidence is simply the virtual reality created by your right brain that makes you feel that you possess a certain skill which actually you don't ,since its virtual.
Similarly under-confidence is the understatement of your skills . It makes you nervous , make you feel something you don't know but you actually do .
In both cases a virtual brain is being created that governs your body . And its the right brain that's doing something extra over the work done by the left brain .Its improvising it ,(in two different ways though) and doing something creative out of that.
Now overconfidence is not actually bad all the time unlike as generally said.Sometimes it eases life in situations where actually only a person's confidence is required . Yup ,I am talking about the importance of shoeing off and yes its right brain that is responsible for 'show off'.`

Left brained people don't think before acting . This makes them loudly reveal about what they're thinking .They speak anything that comes to their mind,anything they feel .

In my last post I talked about the two types of left brained people . One is the category of those who can't afford to go out and mix with the outer world,and the situation makes them self-centered and left brained . The other category is of those who choose to be self-centered ,thanks to their upbringing and the kind of atmosphere they have been living in .Here ,the first kind of left brain-ies are situation driven . And they are the most vulnerable to get into wrong companies once their environment changes .


























Now at the beginning , I mentioned whether it was possible to switch or change the thinking styles or not .The answer is 'no' if you want the switch to be instantaneous and yes if the switch time is long,and by long I mean few years.
But yeah , there are different methods to exercise different parts of the brain which help in ensuring proper functioning of the brain .One can not 'switch ' brains in order to get everything going perfectly . One can not simply 'gain' every time .To gain something , one has to loose other thing .
For a moment , just think of the 'brain' switch.Now , it can be thought to be of two types -auto and manual. The manual switch is simply thinking of 'switching ' and where you think before acting ,the job becomes an issue of the right brain . 
The other switch in the picture is the auto-switch .It's not machine type auto,but it generally happens when over the course of time your thinking changes due to the change in your society , friends , economic condition and many other factors.

Actually the switch is not important . Life is in itself an infinite source of knowledge which teaches us ,literally anything that we want to learn . When someone learns something ,he just takes a handful amount from the infinite source.Living left brained life provides you just a handful amount of knowledge and so does living right brained life. The two handfuls ,though different are just 'handful' and are equally important in life.
So , one never waste your time in switching your brains and live your life with the most comfortable way you find of living it.

Well , that's all in this post . Thank you for reading .The other post will be coming soon.

Think!!

What do we think ? Why do we think ?.........
these questions are 'weird '.We don't tend to really pay much attention to these questions which after a point of time we wish we could.Questions can be anywhere ,in any form .It can be - I buy an iphone every time a new is released ,why?Why do I want to know everything but turns out that i master none?And the infinite list goes on..........

Turns out that the different type of actions is a result of different type of brain usage by people.Now what is 'different type of brain usage'.

Our brain is divided into two parts - the left and the right .The left brain is the logical part ,i.e. it processes the logical activities done by us.Like mathematical calculations .It makes you work hard.
People who use much of their left brain need a reason to do anything ,and if they get that they just do it .These are passionate people .Someone who is perfectly left brained in very bad at understanding emotions ,and is even emotionless.

the next category is of the one of right brained ones.Right side of our brain understands emotions  and not logic ,hence these kind of people (with stronger right brains ) are good at linguistic abilities .the are generally less hard working and more task manipulators.These kind of people are good at leading and not working under .Unlike left brain ,a right brain is less focused and more diverted into multiple tasks. They do many things but not anything perfectly .

now ,who are you ?is there any way to find out ? yes there is !.
there are many "magicians "who play with your mind ,manipulate your mind . there know your actions perfectly ,probably more then you do yours .the best thing would be if you get to know your own actions ,about what you're going to do .this would help you a lot in improving yourself a lot ,and knowing to do the right thing at the right moment .

now, it is scientifically proven that women are more right  brained and men are more left brained . Now this data is not absolute .This is just a general 'scientific observation'.

As I mentioned  above , right brainees tend to do (or monitor )many things at a time .now ,who would be a person who has to  monitor many things at a time {and yes women do this , you gotta agree with me here}.he /she would be someone who is less on resources, who has to manipulate things to get going {if you know hindi -'जुगाड़'} . one who has to 'think on both side of the stream'(that doesn't make any sense , just wrote it ), one who cannot afford to do the wrong way .
Such people do not do things that they want to , bat do what they have to . and if they dont have to do anything ,i.e. make a choice , they get confused .these people {less on resources }, people are also called poor people or for the time ,relatively poor in there society .
but being 'poor' is not the only way to become a right brained person . Basically ,right brainees are not crazy for some thing{discussed below}.Women are naturally more right !.People who think for others rather than than just themselves are right brains .So if you are one type of people , you have strong right brained .
NOTE :- Everything written above is not absolute ,these are just observations which I have observed in limited number of people around me .

                                             
                                           A typical right brained painting (drawn by and liked by- )


Now left brainees are those people who function on logic .They understand very less emotions. they are those who have a 'choice'.Left brainees do things which they like to and than  do it with all their efforts into it .they are pretty strong people {here, by strength ,I mean something that's present in/with him/her that he/she knows but doesn't bother about anymore }.Strength can be anything ,but mostly it means 'wealth '.
Wealth I am saying because I am referring to the people who are 'directly' linked to the progressing world and are either plenty wealthy or are craving to be wealthy .Wealth ,I suppose would not be a brain switching thing for people who are indirectly linked to the progressing society . People who want money just to fulfill their basic requirements ,who don't watch the outside world .They probably don't know what money can buy for them , or the things that money can buy for them holds no significance in their lives.

There are many people who are left brained ,not because they are wealthy or powerful but they are non-bothering kind of people ,sort of isolated .

                                                 
                                               A typical left brained painting (drawn by and liked by- )

Characteristics of different thinkers :-

Right brained ones:-

'The right brain controls and monitors the left part of our body . So what ever we do with our left hand or foot or even breathe with the left nostril ,all goes under the functioning of our right brain.'

As mentioned above right brained people are those who love creativity or lets say they are creative !.Now there are both plus and minus points to that ,as happens with every thing in life .{I will be writing about good ,bad in my next blog so make sure to check it.}
Creative people understand emotions .they are multidimensional ,they feel things.
I must tell the general observations as observed in typical right brained ones:::

Right brained people prioritize their things ,and the one at the top priority is like the must to be done thing for them .But these priorities are on the basis of what that's happening around them .their ability is to perfectly suit their surroundings.They look at others and than act .

Basically right brained people tend to be good at art knowledge .Art of painting ,music ,etc.Even a versatile actor has to be a right brained person ,since he has to just act ,he doesnt need to get into the role completely . Even if he gets into his role , he is being more right brained only since he's not the person he's playing the role of ,but he makes it look like he's the real guy .So a method actor like Christian Bale is even more right brained as he seems to be a psycho in the movie American Psycho even though he is not !!
{I will discuss in more detail in my next blog}

Left brained ones:-

Left brained people or those who use their left brain more,  understand logic more .thats why they are more good at math and things that use logical thinking .

Left brained people have a logical sense of choice and likings .there are things that they like and dislike .things which are of their choice or not .this brings to a point called confidence , and yes people who have left brain dominant are more confident than people who have right brain dominant .they are confident of their habits and thinkings .they do not change them under any situation or so . (seemingly enough, this habit is also bad in many situations).that’s why they are less confused .they always have a ‘theme’ to follow ,i.e. their original theme .

In a monotonous society people generally rate left brained people's habits to be ideal . Confidence is something that everyone wants in their lives . Often parents tend to put examples of left brained students before their kids.They talk about other kids who just study without caring about anything, whether anyone come to their room ,talk to them or anything . This is because the definers of the word 'monotonous' are right brained people , and all they lack is a life's theme and the confidence for their habits. Hence such people tend to like these type of habits.

But there are even some disadvantages of being left brained . These confident 'creatures' never think! outside the box. They do what they like , and liking is a logical solution .And doing so, they reach too far in whatever they are doing .A left brained sportsperson tends to reach too far in his game , an engineer tends to reach too far in his engineering , a smoker tends to spoil all his lungs , an alcoholic tends to spoil his complete lever and his family , simply because he loves it.

Please note :by left brained people ,I mean those who use their left hemisphere of brain more and vice-versa for right brained people. Left brained people are those who do most of the actions thinking with left brain . 
Since all the actions that we do in our lives are composed of multiple small actions ,any task done by right brain is pretty much , like taking multiple decisions by right brain while performing that piece of action. There can also be some decisions taken by left brain , but their number would definitely less than the right brained decisions.

Both left and right brains are equally important for us and also is their being exercised for a healthy lifestyle .Their are multiple implements of brain study . By studying it one can closely understand the reason to any actions. One can also predict other's actions and put his/her best foot forward in accordance to the situation.


I will be posting next blog soon . After you read this ,make sure you check it out .And thank you for reading.