Travel Reference
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CHAPTER 3
brain retreats
I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think
about in this extraordinary moment?
—R. Buckminster Fuller, American visionary, architect, and inventor
W
hen you were five, you wanted the answers to everything. You wanted to know where rain
came from, why some people were bald, how music came out of that little box called a radio.
Back then, it was okay not to know everything. It was perfectly acceptable to ask questions,
wonder why, want to know more. But at some point, you figured out it wasn't “cool” to admit
you didn't know something. You learned to keep your questions to yourself.
Or you began asking different questions. Instead of asking “What's the most extraordinary
thing I could think about today?” you began asking “What was the closing price of Janus
Worldwide?” Instead of asking if that star out your bedroom window is really Mars, you
wanted to know which top looked best with your gray skirt.
