The Codex Mastro

The English translation of this section has yet to be revised.
The meaning of the words counts and I am not native English speaker.

Perception is essentially an emotional response, you see the world as you feel.

Starting from this concept it will seem obvious to you that your approach to the problem depends a lot how you feel at that moment.

I'm not telling you to have a cold approach.
I'm telling you that emotions will affect your perceptive abilities.
And I tell you, not to get rid of them, but to give you a decisive advantage.
If you take advantage of your emotions because you have learned to know when, how and why you try them, then no algorithm, no machine will ever face a problem better than you.

Experience limits your perception.

Before jumping on the chair (I myself would have a lot of objections to this statement) I invite you to think deeply on this concept. Everyone knows that it is thanks to the experience gained that you have more elements to understand a problem: an expert will always appreciate better a picture than a tourist who looks at it for the first time.

So how can the phrase you read above be explained?
Try to find reasons.
Analyze the words, question them, then justify them.
Take your eyes off the text and take a few minutes with your thoughts.

You have no idea how much I would like you to share your thoughts with me.
Dialectic challenge, between two open minds, is one of the most effective tools for growth.
Unfortunately, this is not possible here and I can only try to describe my thoughts to you.

As you have surely assumed, the problem is not in the experience.
If anything, it's the use you make of it to limit your perception.
Why?
Experience contributes to your growth.
Makes you reach a new level.
Then it ends.
After his contribution, you will need more experience to go up again.
The answers will change, as you already know.

Have you ever paused to analyze how experience affects your choices?

Your brain works mainly for "automatic associations".
The more you repeat one thing, the more, over time, it will be natural for you to do it.
If you experience the consequences of your choice, you will be able to decide faster what to do and what not.

I tell you this without too many words.
Your brain is happy when it doesn't have to think.
How to blame him?
From its point of view, it has so many things to evaluate that, if one of them can do it quickly, the brain does not waste time, it does immediately as it knows how to do and passes to the next.

I return to the previous example: what happens when an expert who has seen a painting 100 times do you see it again?
His brain will show him an endless list of thoughts already made about that work.
It will flood him with information and emotions already felt.
He will suggest that there are no questions to answer other than the other times.
He will do everything to convince him: he will even give him a small dose of Dopamine.

Dopamine?
Are you aware of that bit of euphoria that takes you when you have the right intuition?
When you fit all the letters together and form the word that makes you win the game?
Here is the one.
That's the ace up your brain.
The ultimate card to play to keep you from thinking about things other than a chemical process judged not relevant.
This is how the brain, through experience, can transform our critic into a computer.
And for a machine, looking at that picture is like reading the Wikipedia page that describes it.

Pause. Take your time.
I just told you that your brain might not be the help you hoped to have in your choices.
Indeed the more you have experience, the more it will resist your desire to look for different solutions, to explore new paths.
Now you understand why, sometimes, the "last person arrived", with an idea completely out of line, finds a more effective solution compared to the expert?
The superficial ones explain it easily: "Even a broken clock marks the exact time twice a day".
But it is not so.
Now you are aware of it.

If yesterday's experience turns into a limit, it won't help you solve today's problem.

Take another minute, but without worrying too much because you are about to read the good news.
Obviously you can never pay close attention to everything you do.
It would be impossible.
The goal of these words is just to make you become aware of this process.
It's a huge step in your journey. Knowing "how it works" can only give you an advantage on your choices.
Such as? Start from a simple consideration.
How do you see that your brain is going into automatic mode?
Do you remember Dopamine? Exact. That bit of euphoria you'll always be able to feel.
It will be your alarm bell. A sort of (un)consciousness activator.
You "wake up", evaluate and you decide whether to delegate to cerebral automatism or whether to take the situation in hand.

This is enough to make sure you have made a conscious choice, making the most of your experiences.

Your brain will always have an automatic and emotional response to any question.
Now you are aware of it.
Use it to your advantage.