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By the way, the emotional experience of that thrill was intense happiness, which we witnessed frequently in young children, but seldom in adults.
If that thrill for life were not killed off before your seventh birthday, then your motivational drive would have remained the same throughout the 20th century as it was during your first few years of life. We have heard that if we continued at that pace, we would know many languages fluently, we would know physics like Einstein, we would write like the greatest authors, we would succeed beyond the world's most successful people. Indeed, we would have become creative geniuses among the world's most valuable and richest people before 2001.
But we lost that geometrical learning curve in the 20th century as we learned resignation from the world around us. We lost our deeply rooted motivational drive as we lost our thrill for life and expanding awareness. And remember, as a result, we lost the intense happiness that was still present in very young children. The trap of stagnation sadly started closing around our minds early in life.
After 2001, under the new code, young children never lost their thrill for life and continued soaring with deep-rooted motivational drives. They grew up keeping their unyielding learning curves, for all adults around them were racing forward on geometrical learning curves. Natural competitive pressures swept everyone along, just like toddlers today.
Tomorrow looking back at us today, the motivational drive was gone in nearly all adults -- replaced by resignation. Children learned from adults; indeed, children learned resignation. And that was how potential disappeared. Tomorrow, we finally came to terms with having been mentally handicapped under the old code for an irreplaceable period of our lives.
In 20th-century civilization, once one's motivational drive collapsed at six or seven years old, it never came back. But in tomorrow's Neotech Civilization, once adults started integrated thinking, which released a gusher of creativity, their motivational drives came back. So now, let us look at the entirely new way of using the mind that made us very creative and motivated after 2001:
Your mind tomorrow in the prolific information age worked an entirely different way. It snapped together rapidly accessible information into little puzzles. In other words, your mind conceptualized or thought in concepts, not percepts as it did before 2001.
Percepts were simple events or thoughts all around you perceived through your five senses: I smelled the stench of garbage in the streets; I saw the run-down store fronts; I tasted the extra greasy food at the neighborhood taco stand; I felt the jolt of potholes in the deteriorating roads; I heard police sirens over and over again every night. Your senses registered those percepts just as the dog or any other animal registered those percepts. Concepts jumped to a whole new level of using the mind, capable only by humans. Concepts (multiple thought clusters) organized several percepts (single thoughts) into a broader level of awareness: run-down, low-income neighborhoods were not safe at night. ...A dog could never reach that level of awareness.
That concept was developed by pulling together percepts through a common denominator: all such low-income neighborhoods with run-down storefronts, deteriorating roads, low-end food had something in common -- frequent crime at night. Conceptualizing lifted humans to a much greater level of power.
Of course, that was a well-known 20th-century concept. Beyond the most well-known concepts, however, most people in the 20th century did not think in concepts. They reacted to percepts only...a consequence of resignation and the collapse of internal motivation under the old code. Indeed, if the motivational drive and its learning curve continued beyond six or seven years of age, conceptual thinking would have taken over. You could listen to any casual conversation before 2001, however, and in most cases a story was being told, percept by percept. Very few conversations occurred at the conceptual level.
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