Observing Amanda Palmer’s (in the video below) reply to Neil Gaiman’s question about her memoir showed me something interesting. She threw her head back cast her eyes upwards, closed them then looked down. This behaviour to me is akin to fishing. The casting of the line upwards (head back- eyes up searching into the pool of memories) as strongly as you can in order to throw it deep and far into the sea/lake to successfully catch a bite.

The act of self-similar behaviour is one aspect of a fractal. But a fractal is about scaling the behaviour beyond the simple level. So that’s something I’ll have to think about further as it isn’t obvious and intuitive from the example I observed.

But for now, it’s interesting that Amanda herself makes a self-similar comparative behaviour in her own past career as a street model. For my personal interest, this use of analysing behaviour is important during communication.

Many times I’m finding that due to the way I analytically approach subjects, people, conversations it is rare to click with everyone and vice versa. It didn’t matter so much before when I was with like-minded STEM people, teachers, scientists, students because they naturally enjoyed analysing and questioning but now that I’m writing and communicating through the art of writing I need to find ways to be eloquent and coherent to be understood at least enough so that my thoughts or point of view is not taken erroneously.

Whilst my writing skill develops I’ll enjoy observing and learning from the experts who have mastered the ability to convey their thoughts in such a way that resonates with the masses.