741 Hz

The sound frequency 741Hz removes toxins and electromagnetic radiation from the brain and helps us to focus. Apparently.

741Hz and other notable sacred frequencies that date back to the ancient solfeggio scale have been recognized for their 'powers' to stimulate us and have been confirmed in modern times to have some impact on our state of being. But how do we define our states of being in the first place.

The mention of Sam Harris by a musician friend of mine last night led me to this tangent about consciousness and states of 'being' that rekindled my 2004 fascination with the topic. So here I am at lunch, subconsciously at first, and now consciously mashing the two together:

Sacred frequencies reliably influence measurable brain activity in predictable ways. True.

Measurable brain activity can be mapped reliably to predictable 'feelings'. Mostly true.

Therefore sacred frequencies can predictably affect 'feelings'. Sounds fair, if brain activity is the only factor.

This is where it gets tricky. Sometimes how we feel does not reflect what's biologically and physically going on, and sometimes what's physically and biologically going on does not match how we feel. Maybe that's why it's called bio 'logic' and no bio 'illogic'? I digress.

For example, if we know ourselves to feel healthy, but cancer is ripping through us, are we unhealthy? Yes, but that's perhaps a threshold thing.

If we know ourselves to 'feel' in pain, but the traditional receptors in the brain are not firing in the 'pain zone' then are we 'really' in pain? Well, maybe we are not 'in' pain physically, but we 'feel' pain. People with a higher threshold for pain have been lauded for the opposite effect for sure.

Sam Harris might say we are not 'of' pain, but we 'are' pain. Whoa. We are not seeing pain physically from the outside but we are being pain incarnate.

Deep eh?

How's that for a thought starter?

I'm going back to work with my go to 741Hz soundtrack and a belief that I can focus...and a belief that I am focus... and a feeling that I feel focused... but only after I eat something.

Time to Understand

By the end of this paragraph you will have spent time attempting to understand why the title of this entry is different from the quantifiable term, "reduce time to understanding." made popular by the construction industry's use of virtual reality.

But you might just stop reading.

But why stop? Among many reasons is a common root cause of potential disinterest: a lack 0f common context between the writer and the reader.

You the reader, and me the writer are not starting in the same place. I am writing from a position of already knowing what I'm writing about, and you the reader are reading from a place where you have to catch up.

The old-fashioned version is, "a picture is worth a thousand words."

A picture lets us catch up more quickly.

(so do paragraph breaks)

Continuing in that vein, virtual reality is priceless in construction.

Using virtual reality a designer or architect can share a very realistic, fully immersive and interactive experience of their intentions with the person responsible for building it, greatly "reducing [the] time to understanding" their vision.

Since the the drawings are more than skin deep, the builder can peel back the layers of a virtual reality file and inspect the actual plans required to complete the designers vision. This building information modeling or BIM is taking the industry by storm and rightfully so.

In comparison to the dozens, or even hundreds of pages of blue prints typically required to build something like an olympic stadium, virtual reality reduces the "time to understanding" by immediately creating a common context between what the designer is thinking and what it looks like in three dimensions or in augmented real life.

To some that makes virtual reality their new favorite tool.

To me it makes the concept of "reducing the time to understanding" my new favorite phrase.

Action Words

Skanska is a construction company that went beyond simply taking pride in its culture of safety to naming it: "Care for Life Culture".

Say it like it is.

The idea of a safety culture and all that it represents can be too easily dismissed, but there's really no escaping "care for life culture".

It also acts as a tool for advocacy.

"Care for life" provides the indisputable language needed to open meaningful discussions about the actions required to keep people safe.

I'm on the search for examples that are any better than that.

My own "Articulate Expectations Culture" doesn't have the same ring to it . . .