BRAIN POWER SURGES IN INDIA Needless to say, it is complacency that deprives us of reaching our full potential. Complacency is another name for “comfort zones”, where we deceive ourselves with satisfaction that everything is running fine. We convince ourselves th

BRAIN POWER SURGES IN THE PERSIAN GULF AND MIDDLE EAST We imagine a future for our children, a much better future, and a much better world. The world we imagine is a world without cruelty and oppression. We imagine a safe future for our children. Until now this has been a distant dream, but we

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INSTRUMENTS AND TOOLS OF BRAIN EXPRESSION
Apr 15, 2008

There are two things which distinguish us from the animal kingdom. One is our ability to express our ideas the way no other animal can, and second is our ability to create the necessary tools that help us to do our job. These two traits define the core of human brainpower – these are our power. We use these two traits to measure, differentiate and create hierarchy; not only between us and other animals, but also amongst ourselves. In other words those at the bottom of the hierarchy have lesser ability to express their ideas and to work complicated tools. The rules are pretty simple, either you have the brainpower and clout to express yourself and your ideas, or you do not.

I would imagine that we can sum-up the very notion of “human-being” by these two traits. Our essence and our well-being are embedded in these two traits. What I mean by our essence and our well-being is that our health, wealth, power, status, rise and fall are all intrinsically related to these two traits. We find ourselves in peril when there is a deficiency of these two traits. For example, occasionally we will encounter a new insight, a new and brilliant idea – but we struggle to express the idea. We frustrate ourselves in our attempt to bring the idea out in a lucid and compelling form. It is not always easy to do so, that is to express the ideas in a powerful way. Unless we are geniuses, we experience difficulty and pain when creating ideas as well as when expressing ideas. More