It speaks to how finite we are around "knowledge." At the moment we reach understanding, we experience a sophomoric feeling of confidence. But as it fades farth

It speaks to how finite we are around "knowledge." At the moment we reach understanding, we experience a sophomoric feeling of confidence. But as it fades farther and farther from our working memory, we become less fluent and more hesitant. The emerging pattern becomes one of "I can understand these interesting concepts, but it takes a lot of work and they don't last, so I have to choose to understand practically and situationally." And then in the end our bodies and personalities turn out to control our minds more than we might want to believe, as we turn away from one problem and towards a different one on some whim, never able to view the whole. As I recognize this more in myself, I am more inclined to become a bit of a librarian and develop better methods of personal note-taking and information retrieval, so that I lose less each time my mind flutters. At the moment that's turned into a fascination with mind maps - every time I need to critically-think through a problem I start mapping it. In the future I might look into ways of searching through those maps.