Weird.

As I’ve come to find out, the entire universe as I know it, with all of its/my “problems” and the solutions to those problems, occurs only in the language of my internal thinking.

Well, I’ll be damned.

No I won’t.

See?

If that’s true, and as far as I can tell it is, then every time I increase my internal vocabulary I expand the universe I’m able to experience.

If I only know one or two ways to think about a problem, then I only have one or two possible paths through it. If I know fifty ways to think about something, suddenly the landscape changes. New roads appear where there used to be walls.

The external world didn’t change.

My language did.

Which means my ability to perceive options changed.

That’s probably why Mark Twain said, “A person who knows how to read but refuses to do so should be enjoying the life experience of an illiterate person.”

Reading isn’t just about information. It’s about expanding the internal language we use to interpret reality.

More words.

More ideas.

More ways to frame problems.

More ways out of them.

The strange part is that most of the universe we experience isn’t “out there” at all. It’s happening inside our heads, in the quiet running commentary of thought.

And that commentary runs almost entirely on language.

So when we read, study, listen, and learn new ways of describing things, we aren’t just gaining knowledge.

We’re literally expanding the universe we’re able to navigate.

Anyway.

I love you all. Have a good day.

Gonna go get busy.