This simple piece was written earlier this month, precisely on Feb 3. I had just finished a book then and had difficulty in sleeping...a common occurrence nowadays. So I turned on my laptop and started writing, although I didn't have a clue on what to write.
In the end, I managed to sleep. Maybe writing is my best cure for insomnia.
Half Past Midnight
Feb 3, 2015
It’s half
past midnight and I still couldn’t sleep. So I’ll write something to pass the
time.
The problem
is, I am in no mood to write anything. I’ll just scribble the word as it comes
to my mind to break this writer’s block.
I've just
finished a book which I borrowed from a local library. “The Art of Thinking
Clearly” is quite a masterpiece. Full of psychological insight and anecdotes,
the author is very much the resemblance of Malcolm Gladwell, arguably one of my
favourite authors.
This
excellent book presents almost one hundred common errors in our everyday
thinking. It is a well-researched compact book, packed with chunk of
information gleaned from established researches. The writer is highly
intelligent but surprisingly modest in explaining the theories behind every
experiment.
I remember
reading Richard Feynman’s book (which I forgot its title) mentioning about
pseudo-science. To him, anything other than “hard’ science is not the real
science. To a certain extent, I agree with him. All the information in that
book is pseudo-science in nature…but that doesn't make it completely worthless.
Science can
explain everything…but not everything can be explained by science. Take heaven
and hell for example. We know that both exist, but to say it is scientifically
proven that heaven and hell exist is plain wrong. Even generally accepted scientific
theory could be wrong sometimes. The evolution of human is a scientific theory,
but we know it is off the mark.
Time to
sleep.
