He remains fascinated by the brain. “Working with it teaches you about suffering, and the unpredictability of life, that the more we know about the brain, the more we realize we don’t understand. We are still scratching the surface.”
A neurosurgeon comments on his work
Scratching the surface is what I have been doing for the past 45 months. I have been an experiment of one in the unpredictability of life and all of those ineluctable aspects we still do not understand.
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Gargantua is a company that learns from its mistakes. When it fired the one hundred person US support group, it almost immediately faced the embarrassment of trying to rehire them. The foreign replacement workforce was not up to snuff. Gargantua scrambled to fix this problem by recalling the freshly terminated workers. Further embarrassment came when half of the fired workers refused the offer to return. When it was time for Gargantua to get rid of us, the company wanted to avoid making the same mistake twice in row.
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In a prior post I presented a new rule. Whenever I make a blog entry that mentions depression, or feeling down, I must then investigate the reasons for feeling this way. My reasoning is that if I learn to identify the triggers for depression then I may be able to avoid those triggers.
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