How to Think About Impossible Things in 3 Easy Steps
Everything’s impossible, until you do it.
My wife’s intuition is crazy fast and dead accurate, but to me it just feels like magic. “How do you know that?” I ask. Her usual reply, “I just do” explains nothing.
I am a non-intuitive being. All I know comes solely from the stumbling path of trial and error, all stubbed toes, bruised shins, and cut fingers. To me, her instant insight doesn’t seem merely impossible, it is impossible. Still, there must be an explanation.
Have you ever tried to understand something inconceivable? Explaining women’s intuition is just one example, but of course, there are others. Describing eternity to people limited by time; explaining women — in their totality — to men; making God clear to science.
How can you do this? Each subject seems to defy the person trying to comprehend it. Is there a way for the limited to decipher the unlimited?
Of course there’s a way.
It’s just hiding around the next corner of reality. Once you know the trick though, it’s easy.
