WHAT'S NEW

"Whats new?"

"Oh, nuthin."

The "nothing" answer to the "what's new" question is possibly the most commonly used mistruth there ever was. Nobody does it intentionally of course, but the question is just so bad that it will usually elicit a lousy response. 

We all have new things take place in our lives every day. But asking "What's new?" to someone you haven't seen in a while is kind of like asking a librarian "What's here?"

There is just so much information that we become overwhelmed by the broadness of the question to the point that our minds go into a state of overload or even lockdown.

For example, let's say someone asked you to tell them something amazing about yourself. Could you answer that question in an instant? And if you could, would you have answered it differently if you had an hour to ponder it?

However, what if they asked you to tell them something funny that you have done, within a large crowd, at a football game, in the past ten years? This is a much easier question for most of us to answer because we are not forced to search our brain's entire lifetime data bank for an answer. Our mind is able to retrieve the more specific information in a much more efficient fashion like the computer that is. 

To be continued...