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I don't really know what I want this to be. But my life must have something great in it. I must accomplish one of the trillions of ideas bouncing around up there, lest I die in vain. One avenue to consider is a philosophical one - I could attempt to find a new school of thought, answer the hard question, solve the legal-moral crisis's; or I could do none of that. I doubt my own abilities and convictions, despite my resoluteness in such. I want to research, to posit theories, to learn forever. I want to push out and implode the very boundaries of knowledge. I do find myself obsessed with the idea of a theory of knowledge, a legitimate one. A logical, formalizable set of processes that whence undertaken can lead to knowledge. I am no math man - by any such metric of the word; and yet, I find that all life can be whittled down to naught but chances. The odds of such or the other, the chances of da da da, and the unknowns of yonder. (Yes, I do feel the need to write like a jackass. No one else will read this shit, at least not for a long time (if at all you egotistical bastard)). For as articulate as I can find myself being, the words to describe what exactly such an idea entails are lost on me. One of the best ways I can explain it is as follows. You are taking an exam with a certain professor. We may call him Dr. Coconut for the purposes of this explanation. Dr. Coconut always administers his exams in such a way that you understand that the short-answer questions will contain veiled hints to the essay questions, and vice versa. You understand this because you notice a pattern in the way Dr. Coconut crafts the exam, not focusing on the content therein but on the "formula" (lacking a better term) for the exam in and of itself. Now, take this and conceptually broaden it. You could say that this applies to all exams, and you would be correct. Once you learn to look for traps on exams, every one thereafter becomes a game of true/false as opposed to a game of learning content. You need only use literacy skills to figure out all of the answers using just the content provided. Now take that concept, and broaden it too. There exist other patterns to note as well. Something as simple as looking at the answers you have so far for a multiple choice section. You can look at the patterns therein and notice what is a naturally occurring pattern, and what is set as a deliberate snare to trip students up. Together, you could use those two concepts (learning elements of a given situation/task, and understanding what can be a pattern naturally vs. not) to "learn exams" - only needing minimal study to answer enough questions for patterns to reveal themselves. In my experience, this works frighteningly well for excelling in school. It frees up that studying time to instead learn the content purely for pleasure, which in turn is conducive to a better test experience. Now take that idea, and further broaden it. I believe that there exists a fundamental, immutable formula that leads to pure knowledge. Known, or unknown. To me, it is immediately apparent in the smaller things, but not necessarily so to others. Anecdotal, sure, but I have yet to meet someone who comprehends what the hell I mean exactly. It's there, but it eludes me yet. If this could just be done, not even by my hand, life would change as we know it. I know it would. All idea needs is to marry its concepts.