7th April - Psychology

I actually don't have anything to report today. I spent the day printing out shit for my scholarship interview tomorrow, and fixing the damn printer's ink refill which left my hands dyed blue and yellow. I just thought it'd be a time to shed some light on a certain subject that goes on my mind. A theory, if you will. Okay, fine, I just feel the need to vomit it out so I stop going it over in my head.

From observing people for quite awhile, I've come to notice that when you're not part of the flock of sheep, you tend to show certain special behaviors. I believe it is probably because once you cross a certain intellectual capability threshold, you gain what I would like to term a PSYCHO SKILL. It's basically kind of your brain somehow re-hard wiring itself to think in a certain pattern, allowing you to understand things better in your own concept, or breaking down processes, or rearranging explanations etc. It really differs from person to person, but if you observe for a while, you actually can single out those that do, and those that... well, just rely on the group's collective thought process to decide rather than utilize their brains.

For one, mine would probably be SCAN. Seeing how my brain works is that once I see something, anything, whether it be a person or a game or an object, some measurements appear in my head. For people, it would be stuff like moods, personalities, habitual behaviors, likes, dislikes, aversions to, attractions to, and then it works itself further to steps on how to coerce them to do or not do something, or how to throw a conversation with them to a certain topic, or how to elicit a certain emotion from them. With skills, it breaks down in my head to simple concepts such that it's easier to learn, like guitar, or dancing. It's really complex, I've no good idea how to explain it myself.

An explaining ability would be like Vincent's, I suspect: TRANSLATION. For some reason, he's able to take any strange topic, and once he's got the understanding of it, he's able to explain it in a way that the person would understand. He would explain to me in game terms, maybe soccer terms to a soccer fan, cooking terms to a chef. And it's immediate, it's amazing. It's like his brain has the ability to just break down a topic and transform it into understandable terms for anyone. Others I've noticed would augment charisma, or humor. Some have the ability to twist and win arguments. And being able to do it flawlessly and immediately, as if it were second nature, that is what I believe PSYCHO SKILLs are.

Or there might really be another way of explaining this,but this is how it's like in my head, everything lined up in videogame terms :/