I am not an academic or an intellectual and yet I am always striving to be better informed. I love knowledge for knowledge's sake and seek out information where I have a gap in knowledge about things that I am interested in. I love to seek out classical fiction by great writers such as Hardy and am about to embark on reading Far from the Madding Crowd (which is currently on at cinemas in the UK). I am also looking forward to reading A Brief Guide to Philosophical Classics - which according to the front cover is - 'philosophy without the boring bits'.
From time to time I dip into a book called Sort Your Brain Out by Dr Jack Lewis and Adrian Webster. It is about boosting your performance, managing stress and achieving more by adapting, training and exercising your brain on a daily basis. It is full of stuff you need to know and stuff that one never needs to know such as;
' if your skull was used as a drinking vessel it could hold about 3 pints.'
I am not likely to forget that trivial piece of information now!
Talking of triviality, I made some mini coat hangers out paper clips after seeing a tutorial on pinterest. I have absolutely no purpose for them and yet they make me feel happy just looking at them and I have no idea why. Yes, the brain does work in some strange and fascinating ways.
