Over the course of the next 10 years I’d like to learn how to think about 2 unrelated things simultaneously and with equal concentration. The catch is the equal concentration bit. It isn’t too hard to wonder lightly about subject ‘a’ while focusing more on subject ‘b’ at the same time. Focusing equally and simultaneously on ‘a’ and ‘b’ is what I’m after. If years into the future I’m able to dominate 2 thoughts, I might introduce ‘c’.

Why years? First, because I’m not particularly motivated to drop obligations of contemporary American living in favor of devoting all my time to developing thought methods; and second, the fact I didn’t grow up in a culture that is conducive to these kinds of endeavors (as some likely are) seriously impedes any progress I may make. Rodney theorizes that if one were to think equally and simultaneously about two separate things, the result would be a compromise between the two, since neither thought can stay isolated and distinct from the other for very long, considering the distance between them is only a few trillion neurons. Pardon the simile, but two thoughts attract like north and south ends of magnets. And if I introduce ‘c’? what then? can I insert ‘c’ in-between ‘a’ and ‘b’, thus forcing all three to remain distinct for the duration I’m thinking about them? Or would they all turn to liquid in the same jar, shaken up into some homogeneous carbonated brew?