I recently developed the habit of solving mini cross word puzzles and came across an interesting analogy which I will get to in a minute. So, the challenge was to solve a four letter word with a clue “Exchange” and I started guessing words around stock exchanges just like that. Words like NYSE started popping up. in my mind and since it was an auto check crossword, it would prompt me for the wrong words. When I started typing the letter ‘S’ it did not error out and so I started guessing around ‘S’ and nothing came up in my mind. At some point due to frustration, I went off to bed to look at it the next day.
When I woke up the next day morning and looked at the same word it struck me “SWAP” which was literally what it meant. I laughed at myself thinking how crazy I was to over complicate it just by thinking and going around and around the same theme/concept from a different perspective. With this, I kind of concluded my analogy as follows.
This happens in our daily lives when we go through different stuff related to our mind. We look or view at something from the lenses the way we understand not allowing to go beyond our preconceptions. We coin a meaning and look for answers from our perspective. However, when you think you are in a vicious cycle deriving at the same possible answer, solution or understanding, take a break and revisit it. You might get a different perspective and it will be more simpler than it really is and would be really what it means like ‘Exchange=Swap’.
The mystery of the mind!!!!
