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What if you don’t care about light and rainbows? What does this concept have to do with real life?

The same principle described above applies to all the things shaped by unseen rules: the workings of society, love and relationships, the gaining of a skill.

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Mastering a skill takes a long time during which your proficiency in that skill increases, which encourages you to work harder to improve. After a while the amount of work becomes disproportionate with the increase in skill, which means you are approaching the top of your range. You stay there for a while, but there is no incentive to work harder, because you can no longer improve. You have accomplished what you set to accomplish, and after enjoying your skill for a while you start losing interest in it, and as a result of your lack of practice your skill wanes.

Does this mean you will always abandon your current interests in search of ever changing ones? No. It just means you should pick an interest complex enough it can keep you engaged for the length of your lifetime. This way you risk having your life run short of the top of your range, but this is a better problem to have than its opposite.

Can you manipulate the higher dimension by changing things one level down in its rate of change? I have to confess that I never contemplated the possibility.

Could you, for instance, cut a crystal in such a way that no matter where the light comes from, it always enters it at the angle of your choice, and live inside that crystal? If you did that, in theory, all light would come out rainbows for you,

Come to think of it, we experience this all the time: parallel lines don’t meet at the horizon and things don’t get smaller as they get farther away. We change from infancy to old age, but we always think of ourselves as the person we are in the present.

We pay no attention to the movements of things that happen inside time frames significantly different from our lives - the shaping of mountains, the movements of plants, the intricacy of a raindrop. We all live in a reality warped by our senses and the speed of our life, one that eliminates the details we can’t use.

[This page ends with a series of symbols, which seem to be components of a language, but which match none of the writing conventions we have encountered so far. They are combinations of only two elements: a circle and a line.

It was beyond our ability to interpret the meaning of the script. We can’t tell whether the pictographs represent words or phrases and there aren’t enough symbols in the sample to yield any discernible patterns.]

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