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Human Nature Self Thought Process
After my non-voluntary hospitalization for depression in the fall of 2000, I attended day hospital in McHenry, Illinois for more than a year. I drove to McHenry every week day from Cary 15 miles away, mostly taking paved back roads. Day-hospital was where I learned I could draw free hand. All the patients and staff sat in a circle and took turns speaking, "telling" how they felt that day. My mind often drifted after hearing the same things for more than a year. In one of those drifts I sketched cross-legged person across the room in about 5 minutes. It was pretty good, enough to convince me I knew how to draw "free=hand". I already knew I could draw with triangles and rulers. | ||
| Data | Facts | [can be learned, memorized] |
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| Information | Knowledge | [relationships among facts] |
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| Understanding | Systematic Framework | [must be “self-learned] |
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Some sayings heard in day hospital Like trying to pull hen’s teeth Two nickels short of a dime Two quarks short of a dyne Grab the brass ring (from Coney Island) Turn on a dime A whole nother (for “another”) Get by by the skin of our teeth Can’t squeeze blood from a turnip Only a hair’s breadth away | ||