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and then elaborate on the essence and you begin to see how everything relates that's what structure is it's the ability to see how a relates to B even if a is on one side of the board and B is on the other so with that type of information the brain begins to see tremendous um ways to create new understandings new relationships you see because many people cannot organize or structure so they have to rely on your brain grabbing it by an experience I'm brain grabbing it by an experience I'm not you know what I'm saying but as far as I'm concerned the brain excels in understanding it excels that's what it's for you know the you know the ability to look at something and then Define it what is it how is it connected to everything else what's the ultimate purpose of the entire operation the brain that's that's what it does best it also does if you if you give it an experience but that experience is a fragment and then you give it another experience and that's a fragment right after a while it will seek a pattern after a while it will seek a pattern between the fragments you see but that's slow and and and what's a good way it's just a slow way and it never equals it's Hit or Miss yeah it's hit or miss and it's slow it's h but but it Nevers the Engish word is it never truly grasps if something however is presented as a essential fundamental structure and the grasp is immediate and it's all the
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