The fact is, a lot of us are starting and finishing those things for the first time.
So if you are trying to put something in a pattern, it’s important to know that you’re not the only one.
The way to put things in a pattern is to find the pattern. Once you have a pattern you have a way to organize your thoughts that will help you to put your things into a pattern. It is this organizing process that we call ‘pattern recognition’. The idea here is that you are trying to make new patterns, but you are not the only one. Different people are going to put things into patterns.
As a rule of thumb, people think that if they can put something into a pattern they can make it into a pattern. This is not always the case however. Some people have a very limited vocabulary for putting things in a pattern. This is why you often see people in their twenties saying something like, “that’s so easy” and not recognizing that they are actually writing a sentence. The problem is that this limited vocabulary does not allow you to make anything new.
This is why you may see a person in their twenties saying something like, its a simple question and it’s going to be easy for me to respond but it’s going to be difficult for me to write an essay on what a complex question means.
Your typical reaction to a question would be, “Hey, are these real people?” or “No… they’re just so stupid… What’s the point of having a stupid question that gets answered?” Or you can see someone in their twenties saying something like, it’s a simple question for us to respond to.” The problem is, people will always respond to a question at a time.
People will respond to questions at random. But with patterns we can do something about that. When we start with a random question, we’re going to look at each answer and try to figure out what the answer means. That’s where the pattern becomes important. We can then say, “Hmm, this is the answer to the question: What is this thing?” and go from there.
Of course, that requires us to do a little pattern analysis, which means asking ourselves, “How is this thing related to this other thing?” as opposed to, “What does this thing have to do with that other thing?” This is the key difference between pattern searching and pattern understanding. It is all about understanding relationships, and how they relate to each other.
If we can’t figure out a pattern, then we can’t actually predict what will happen. In a lot of cases, the answer to the question, What is this thing and why is it related to that other thing becomes a huge question mark hanging in the air as we continue looking for this pattern.
