Quick and Speedy

My recent academic studies have provided me a "reasoning" behind the propensity of humans to seek out effortless, quick and efficient solutions to reaching the "fun stuff" vs. remaining steadfast on the fundamentals to build a solid martial foundation. It is simple, it is a part of the human survival condition. It is as natural as breathing.

It is not as simple as it seems on the surface when you read about it. It is a complex system that promotes weeding out the information needed and not needed when inundated by a tidal wave of sensory input.

We get and process every single tidbit of data our eyes, ears, touch, taste and smell send to our brain. Simplistically speaking, the data must be first sorted for either the left or right side processing, i.e. the holistic or atomistic aspects of our perceptual processing systems. Once in one side or the other then we place it in our memory depending on a variety of factors that are tied to perceptual filtering and our belief systems. Complex, isn't it?

This process also incorporates our need for survival in finding those resolutions that are simple, fast and efficient. In today's world that means some things that should be taken slowly and methodically are placed in a position where we desire to do it quickly and in this case not as efficiently as our end goals would need.

Knowing that this is true might allow our minds to move things from the holistic aspect or side and place it into the reductionist or atomistic side for further processing before we place it quickly into the holistic or "feels right" side for storage.

The atomistic aspects ensures we train and practice until it works for us so when we migrate it into the more "feels right" holistic side for storage and rapid retrieval.

Knowledge is good, knowledge is right and knowledge is necessary - assimilate it, analyze it, question it and then accept/discard it.