I don’t have any closet progress to indicate as we speak as a result of, once more, yesterday was a vacation within the U.S., and I took the time off. However now that the lengthy three-day vacation weekend is over, I’ll get again to constructing the walk-in closet island as we speak. However within the meantime, I need to ask that you just take part on this thought experiment. I’m asking on your suggestions on this merely out of sheer curiosity and never in an effort to disgrace anybody or something like that. I’m motivated by sheer fascination and curiosity at how individuals’s brains work.
I don’t know if y’all know this, however after I went to school, I received a Bachelor of Science diploma in psychology. I did so, at the start, as a result of I used to be within the human thoughts, the way it works, nature vs. nurture, how that impacts our minds, our conduct, our life decisions, and so forth. My plan after commencement was to take a 12 months off after getting my bachelor’s diploma to resolve if I needed to go the MD route and turn into a psychiatrist or go the PhD route and turn into a licensed therapist. Fortuitously, that 12 months off led me in a vastly totally different route and I by no means went again.
Trying again, I’m so grateful that my life went a distinct method. That sort of labor requires far more of an analytical thoughts, and over the span of the final 30 years, I’ve realized increasingly with every passing day that I don’t possess that analytical thoughts. I’d have died a sluggish inside demise if I (or my mother and father) had spent all of that cash on that sort of training and I had felt locked into that form of work for the remainder of my life. My thoughts could possess a few of these analytical qualities, however my thoughts thrives on the creative and inventive facet. Feeding that creative and inventive facet of my thoughts is what makes me really feel alive.
However I’ve by no means misplaced that fascination with how the human thoughts works, and the way all of our minds work in very other ways. And that brings me to this (seemingly very random) subject for as we speak.
The opposite day on my Addicted 2 Adorning Fb web page, I posted this side-by-side image of a light-weight that I noticed on the Wayfair web site and my studio pendant mild. As quickly as I noticed that Wayfair mild, I assumed, “Oh, that jogs my memory of my studio mild! And wow! Have a look at that worth!“
And within the description of that submit, I began with “That is why I DIY…” and talked in regards to the worth distinction, and so forth. Now, after all, I’ve a bonus in that DIYing is actually my full-time job. So for me, time isn’t a problem. I notice that for individuals who work a full-time job, spending hours and hours making one thing won’t repay, so that you’d be higher off saving up cash to buy the merchandise you need. However I in contrast not solely the worth distinction, but additionally that by DIYing, you find yourself with one thing that’s utterly custom-made to your house — measurement, colours, and so forth. — and fairly often wind up with one thing that’s utterly distinctive and one-of-a-kind. Plus, there’s the satisfaction of having the ability to take a look at that factor and say, “I made that with my very own arms!” For individuals like me, that’s one of the crucial satisfying emotions on this planet, however I notice it’s not necessary for lots of different individuals.
Anyway, blah, blah, blah. That’s not even actually the purpose I need to get to. That’s simply the background of the place as we speak’s submit got here from. My query is in regards to the responses that I received from a handful of those that genuinely shocked me and made me say, “Wait…WHAT? Critically?”
There have been just a few, however the feedback went one thing like this…
These aren’t even remotely related.
It’s not a model of that lamp. It’s a totally totally different lamp.
There are actually NO similarities.
Anyway, you get the purpose. The submit has 630 feedback, and these kind of feedback had been a really small share. I’d say I received not more than 10 feedback from individuals who stated there have been NO similarities between the 2 lights. However these feedback astound me, nonetheless.
I need to impress upon you that this has nothing to do with “imply feedback” or something like that. These feedback weren’t imply. They didn’t make me indignant. That’s not the purpose of this submit. The entire level is that I’m actually and genuinely fascinated by the truth that some individuals can take a look at these two lights and see NO similarities in any respect. It’s like I need to research their brains. I need to spend every week shadowing them and see how they course of data from the world round them after which evaluate notes on the finish of the week to see how in a different way we each course of the identical data.
In truth, after I received the primary remark about there being NO similarities in any respect, I simply wrote it off as coming from somebody who most likely likes being a contrarian on-line. However then I received one other. And one other. And one other. I assumed, “How is that even potential?“
As a result of I take a look at these two lights and I see nothing however similarities. They each make the most of a number of rings hung collectively on totally different ranges in descending order of diameter. They each create visible curiosity with one merchandise used lots of of instances in repetition. Sure, there are variations. The Wayfair mild solely has 4 rings, and mine has 13. The Wayfair mild solely has one shade, and mine has 13. However the total idea is identical. At the least it’s to my mind and the best way that my mind processes data.
I’m so curious to know should you can see that or not. Once you see these two lights side-by-side, does your mind let you know these are related lights which can be primarily based on an analogous design idea? Or does your mind let you know that there are completely NO similarities in these two lights?
Once more, I ask for no different motive apart from sheer curiosity. I do know there’s no approach to do a scientific ballot on my weblog, however I’m so interested in how the numbers are break up. Will or not it’s 50/50? Or 90/10? And should you see no similarities in any respect, how would you describe your self? Would you describe your self as a artistic? Not artistic? Do you get pleasure from doing artistic issues?
Possibly I’m not even asking the correct questions. I simply need to know extra. I need to know extra in regards to the individuals who take a look at these and say, “Nope. Not related in any respect.” I need to research your brains. 🤣 I need to perceive how your mind processes data from the world round you.
Apparently, the sunshine that actually impressed my studio mild was the one which hangs in our music room.
That was my most important inspiration. Once more, I take a look at these two lights and I see many similarities. Are they the identical? After all not. That music room mild has all the rings on the identical degree and makes use of strings to connect multiples of the identical merchandise (capiz shells, particularly) on one string to create the visible of various ranges, with the shorter strings across the outer ring, and regularly getting longer as they go in direction of the middle of the sunshine.
However that’s the principle mild that impressed my design on the correct. So how about these two? Do you see the similarities in these?
I’m guessing should you answered “No” to the primary comparability of the Wayfair mild and my studio mild, then it is a “Heck no!”. However should you answered “Sure” to the primary comparability, is that this a “Sure” additionally? Or is that this one a “No”?
Anyway, I hope you’ll indulge me as I delve again into my psychology previous for one submit. I’m genuinely fascinated with this, and I’ve been fascinated with it for days now. I’m fascinated with how totally different individuals course of data and course of the world round them. I’ll get again to the closet tomorrow, as my plan is to spend as we speak engaged on the island. 🙂
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You may be taught extra about me right here.
