On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:59 PM Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote:
When I didn't know as much about these things, I would be struck by some > experiences, unable to explain them logically. Many years ago I was in > Amsterdam, and I used to spend hours in front of a single painting by Van > Gogh, and mere minutes in front of the works of Rembrandt. I couldn't tell > you exactly why then, but it was clear to me that Van Gogh put his heart > into his paintings. Now Rembrandt was not a bad painter by any means, but > he didn't care about his work like Van Gogh, he did care, very much, about > being successful. This intuition I learned much later was true when I read > his life history, he liked to make money off his paintings, and so cared > about customer satisfaction. Van Gogh died in poverty. I'm uncomfortable with this. If you had ended up doing the opposite, you might then either have - forgotten about the incident altogether, or - rationalized it with an entirely different story in order to make it consistent with the presence of some innate sixth sense or feeling. If I were not able to explain something logically, I would conclude only that the logic was beyond my cognitive ability. Manu
