Lately I find myself recognizing moreand more circularity being present in my work. Circularity in the way that the same things keep happening – the same topics keep showing up – whether I want to or not –
Schema theory is a concept from psychology that describes how the brain structures knowledge. Our brains add every new information we learn into a box of information about related things it has already gathered. The boxes have been filled since early childhood and we use new information mostly to cement what we already know --- or rather, the way we perceive new information is structured by our previous experiences, the Schema we already developed, the stuff that is already in the box.
Am I destined to repeat? Am I a self fulfilling prophecy?