Richard Nixon apuntando el dedo a Nikita Khruschev. Foto por Elliot Erwitt.
Cosas que son obvias para ciertos mundos mentales, pero para otros no.
Personas que odian las matemáticas, mientras que otras las aman.
La gente que es atea contra los religiosos.
La gente que piensa siempre que esta en lo correcto es dificil hacerla cambiar de opinion (por no decir imposible).
Gente que ve películas de Disney, mientras que otras no las toleran.
Psicólogos conductivistas versus psicoanalistas.
Personas que participaron en actividades sociales de temprana edad, su percepción de sociabilizar es diferente a la de alguien que estuvo encerrado la mayoría de su niñez.
Paul Graham menciona en What You Can’t Say
How do we get at these ideas? By the following thought experiment. Imagine a kind of latter-day Conrad character who has worked for a time as a mercenary in Africa, for a time as a doctor in Nepal, for a time as the manager of a nightclub in Miami. The specifics don’t matter — just someone who has seen a lot. Now imagine comparing what’s inside this guy’s head with what’s inside the head of a well-behaved sixteen year old girl from the suburbs. What does he think that would shock her? He knows the world; she knows, or at least embodies, present taboos. Subtract one from the other, and the result is what we can’t say.
Cuando estas dentro de tu mundo mental es dificil entender en plenitud el otro. Al menos que estes dispuesto a cambiar.
Graham también menciona que:
(…) I do it because it’s good for the brain. To do good work you need a brain that can go anywhere. And you especially need a brain that’s in the habit of going where it’s not supposed to.
Training yourself to think unthinkable thoughts has advantages beyond the thoughts themselves. It’s like stretching. When you stretch before running, you put your body into positions much more extreme than any it will assume during the run. If you can think things so outside the box that they’d make people’s hair stand on end, you’ll have no trouble with the small trips outside the box that people call innovative.