Integrating more of the world outside of you: "I'll know it when I see it"
You probably find it irritating. Someone close you to you - a friend, family, a work person - is clearly trying to find something. You want to help (or to stop the restlessness) so you ask helpfully "What are you looking for?" and the response is some variation on "I'll know it when I see it." How can you look for something if you don't even know what you're looking for. You can't. That's why you can't help your "I'll know it when I see it" friend. You can, however, look to find correspondence between a feeling you have and something outside yourself. In fact, that unspecified drive can be particularly powerful. There are two huge benefits to "I'll know it when I see it." The first is that you filter out much less information than usual. When you know what you want, everything is either "something like what I want" and "not what I want." This isn't possible when you don't know w...