I don’t have any closet progress to indicate immediately as a result of, once more, yesterday was a vacation within the U.S., and I took the day without work. However now that the lengthy three-day vacation weekend is over, I’ll get again to constructing the walk-in closet island immediately. However within the meantime, I need to ask that you simply take part on this thought experiment. I’m asking to 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 acquired a Bachelor of Science diploma in psychology. I did so, firstly, 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 habits, our life selections, and so on. 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. Luckily, that 12 months off led me in a vastly completely different course and I by no means went again.
Wanting again, I’m so grateful that my life went a distinct method. That kind of labor requires way more of an analytical thoughts, and over the span of the final 30 years, I’ve realized increasingly more with every passing day that I don’t possess that analytical thoughts. I might have died a sluggish inside loss of life if I (or my dad and mom) had spent all of that cash on that kind of schooling 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 aspect. Feeding that creative and inventive aspect 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 alternative ways. And that brings me to this (seemingly very random) subject for immediately.
The opposite day on my Addicted 2 Decorating Facebook web page, I posted this side-by-side image of a lightweight that I noticed on the Wayfair web site and my studio pendant mild. As quickly as I noticed that Wayfair mild, I believed, “Oh, that jogs my memory of my studio mild! And wow! Take a look at that value!“
And within the description of that publish, I began with “Because of this I DIY…” and talked in regards to the value distinction, and so on. Now, in fact, I’ve a bonus in that DIYing is actually my full-time job. So for me, time isn’t a problem. I understand that for many who work a full-time job, spending hours and hours making one thing may not repay, so that you’d be higher off saving up cash to buy the merchandise you need. However I in contrast not solely the value distinction, but additionally that by DIYing, you find yourself with one thing that’s utterly custom-made to your private home — measurement, colours, and so on. — 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 palms!” For individuals like me, that’s probably the most satisfying emotions on this planet, however I understand it’s not essential 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 immediately’s publish got here from. My query is in regards to the responses that I acquired from a handful of those who genuinely shocked me and made me say, “Wait…WHAT? Severely?”
There have been only some, 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 completely different lamp.
There are actually NO similarities.
Anyway, you get the purpose. The publish has 630 feedback, and most of these feedback had been a really small proportion. I might say I acquired not more than 10 feedback from individuals who mentioned 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 offended. That’s not the purpose of this publish. 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 info from the world round them after which examine notes on the finish of the week to see how in another way we each course of the identical info.
In truth, after I acquired 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 acquired one other. And one other. And one other. I believed, “How is that even doable?“
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 completely different ranges in descending order of diameter. They each create visible curiosity with one merchandise used a whole bunch of occasions in repetition. Sure, there are variations. The Wayfair mild solely has 4 rings, and mine has 13. The Wayfair mild solely has one coloration, and mine has 13. However the total idea is similar. A minimum of it’s to my mind and the best way that my mind processes info.
I’m so curious to know for those who can see that or not. While you see these two lights side-by-side, does your mind inform you these are related lights which might be based mostly on an analogous design idea? Or does your mind inform you that there are completely NO similarities in these two lights?
Once more, I ask for no different motive aside from sheer curiosity. I do know there’s no method to do a scientific ballot on my weblog, however I’m so inquisitive about how the numbers are break up. Will it’s 50/50? Or 90/10? And for those who 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 proper 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 info from the world round you.
Curiously, the sunshine that basically impressed my studio mild was the one which hangs in our music room.
That was my principal 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 the entire 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 proper. So how about these two? Do you see the similarities in these?
I’m guessing for those who answered “No” to the primary comparability of the Wayfair mild and my studio mild, then this can be a “Heck no!”. However for those who 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 publish. I’m genuinely fascinated with this, and I’ve been occupied with it for days now. I’m fascinated with how completely different individuals course of info and course of the world round them. I’ll get again to the closet tomorrow, as my plan is to spend immediately engaged on the island. 🙂
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework 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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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