Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Nonsense

I recently came across an article published by BCG on this topic. Its fascinating. A few perspectives i enjoyed from the articles are:

The importance of nonsense can hardly be overstated. The more clearly we experience something as "nonsense", the more clearly we are experiencing the boundaries of our own self-imposed cognitive structures. "Nonsense" is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality. There is no such thing as "nonsense" apart from a judgmental intellect which calls it that.

Those who establish the established lines of thought, however, are those who do not fear to venture boldly into nonsense, into that which any fool could have told them is clearly not so. This is the mark of the creative mind; in fact, this is the creative process. It is characterized by a steadfast confidence that there exists a point of view from which the "nonsense" is not nonsense at all - in fact, from which it is obvious.

4 comments:

hemkumarg said...

U hv found a sense even in non sense. May be u r talking out of common sense which is most uncommon to which many belong and call some sense which they can't sense as non sense

Anonymous said...

hey ranga, firstly congratulations on the ISB part. Well i have not been able to analyse that exchange arbitrage excel file that you sent. However, i ve become a regular visitor to your blog.. liked the hosepipe bit a lot and i concur.. but wht i liked most was your reasoning to blog, awesome mate, keep up the good work..

Cheers! satheesh (u wud not recollect unless i say from hdfc treasury)

Rangarajan said...

Hi Satish,
Thanks for the encouragement. Please give me ur email ID and i will send you the details for making some meaning of the excel file. Btw, how is work?

Anonymous said...

hey my mail id is satheesh.sreedharan@yesbank.in. Work is good, look forward to your mail