Re: Attention Experienced Professionals

Gene Wirchenko <genew_at_mail.ocis.net> wrote in message news:<fsr1p05ru3nmcsku69mbpdiplfcq0c42nv_at_4ax.com>...
> "Richard Hollenbeck" <halenbek_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >I can't begin to say how many times I've struggled with a problem for days
> >and finally decided to post the problem to a newsgroup; before I could
> >receive a reply, the answer to the problem came to me--as if the exercise of
> >writing the question put my mind into gear toward solving the problem. I
> >used to feel foolish for posting such obvious questions. But the answer
> >wasn't obvious until after I clicked, "Send." Why is that?
>
> Because if you asked the question properly, you gave sufficient
> information for someone to be able to understand your situation. That
> can help your own understanding. Determining exactly what the
> situation is is much of the battle.

If that was all, it would be obvious before send. There may be some additional factors:

You have stimulated the behavior associated with answers by completing the question task.

You have "senders remorse," and that is kind of like shaking the funnel to get the Bisquick loosened up to finish adding the ingredients to the batter.

You know the answer, but it is being blocked by composing a message. Perhaps a result of too much multi-tasking enabling you to mentally compartmentalize tasks.

Shrodinger's cat is attacking Heisenberg and it is leaking into our universe.

You actually figured it out last night in a dream that you don't remember. Or you remember and thought it was about midgets.

You have a secret deep desire to be embarrassed in front of a world-wide audience.

Your language-processing center is on the left side of your brain, but the creative problem-solving center is on the right side of your brain. So, you've actually figured it out, but you don't believe you've figured it out until you verbalize it. So the linear verbalization buffer needs to be flushed, then refilled with the answer from the non-linear creativity buffer through the corpus collosum, which has some crosstalk going on too.

jg

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