2008 Woodie Awards
Unscramble the world
One After 909
Josh Rutledge
Issue date: 10/3/07 Section: Opinion
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The huamn mnid is azmiang. Need porof? Wiat. How are you rediang tihs? It's a taotl mses. How deos it mkae ssnee? Jsut aubot erevy snigle wrod is mipslesled.
Ocne agian, the hamun mnid is inclreidbe. Aoccrdnig to a Cmabirdge sutdy, it dones't aylaws need to raed inddiivual letetrs in a wrod. It rades wodrs as a wlohe. An enitre culmon in the Smafrod Ciromsn can be a werck and you can sitll mkea snese of it. All it taeks is the fisrt and lsat leertts of a wrod to be corerct, and the mnid can norlmaly fiugre out the rset.
The mnid is the gerat equelizar of hmuans. We all hvae one. Imagnie how exeinpsve a mnid wolud be if it ddin't cmoe free at bitrh. Colud you eevn put a picre on it? But too oeftn the potiental of the mnid is iogrned. Too ofetn ppeole watse or aubse it. Pepole proctet their celhlpone or ioPd lkie glod, but msot dno't hvae a prolbem lenavig thier mnid out in the rain of durgs, alochol or seher lazniess.
In the psat seevral wekes, a hanfdul of pepole hvae asekd me abuot the nmae of my colmun, "One After 909." It's the ttile of a snog by the Bealtes, one of the fisrt taht Jhon Lenonn eevr reocdred. The bnad reocrded the snog, but oevr the yeras, tehy recoredd it sevreal tiems aagin. As tehir msuic mtaured, tehy wuold chnage the snog to fit tehir new idetinty.
And so, the gaol of tihs cloumn is to encuorgae pepole to use thier mnids. And it's not abuot jsut stiring up truoble. Nohtnig is mroe anonying tahn hlaf the clomuns in tihs ppaer taht do nothnig but try and agner poeple.
Hvae you eevr seen the TV sohw, "Huose"? The mian chraatcer is a brlilaint dotcor who speciazlies in biazrre mecdial caess. But depsite his geinus, he's heplelss wihtuot a taem. He's smatrer tahn evreynoe in the hopstial combnied, but wihtuot pepole tehre to chlalegne him, he's not taht gerat. Why? Bceasue ohter pepole birng a new pesrpcetive. Ecah of us lokos out itno the wrold thruogh coloerd glasess.
Lsat week, atfer reidang my cloumn on missoins, a firend tlod me she ddni't argee wtih me. She tohuhgt I was bieng judmgental. Good. I'm gald she dosen't argee wtih me. It shwos taht she is usnig her mnid. I aslo had a freind who tlod me he relaly lkied it, and it put in wrods smeehting he alawys thoguht. Good. He too is uisng his mnid.
Ocne agian, the hamun mnid is inclreidbe. Aoccrdnig to a Cmabirdge sutdy, it dones't aylaws need to raed inddiivual letetrs in a wrod. It rades wodrs as a wlohe. An enitre culmon in the Smafrod Ciromsn can be a werck and you can sitll mkea snese of it. All it taeks is the fisrt and lsat leertts of a wrod to be corerct, and the mnid can norlmaly fiugre out the rset.
The mnid is the gerat equelizar of hmuans. We all hvae one. Imagnie how exeinpsve a mnid wolud be if it ddin't cmoe free at bitrh. Colud you eevn put a picre on it? But too oeftn the potiental of the mnid is iogrned. Too ofetn ppeole watse or aubse it. Pepole proctet their celhlpone or ioPd lkie glod, but msot dno't hvae a prolbem lenavig thier mnid out in the rain of durgs, alochol or seher lazniess.
In the psat seevral wekes, a hanfdul of pepole hvae asekd me abuot the nmae of my colmun, "One After 909." It's the ttile of a snog by the Bealtes, one of the fisrt taht Jhon Lenonn eevr reocdred. The bnad reocrded the snog, but oevr the yeras, tehy recoredd it sevreal tiems aagin. As tehir msuic mtaured, tehy wuold chnage the snog to fit tehir new idetinty.
And so, the gaol of tihs cloumn is to encuorgae pepole to use thier mnids. And it's not abuot jsut stiring up truoble. Nohtnig is mroe anonying tahn hlaf the clomuns in tihs ppaer taht do nothnig but try and agner poeple.
Hvae you eevr seen the TV sohw, "Huose"? The mian chraatcer is a brlilaint dotcor who speciazlies in biazrre mecdial caess. But depsite his geinus, he's heplelss wihtuot a taem. He's smatrer tahn evreynoe in the hopstial combnied, but wihtuot pepole tehre to chlalegne him, he's not taht gerat. Why? Bceasue ohter pepole birng a new pesrpcetive. Ecah of us lokos out itno the wrold thruogh coloerd glasess.
Lsat week, atfer reidang my cloumn on missoins, a firend tlod me she ddni't argee wtih me. She tohuhgt I was bieng judmgental. Good. I'm gald she dosen't argee wtih me. It shwos taht she is usnig her mnid. I aslo had a freind who tlod me he relaly lkied it, and it put in wrods smeehting he alawys thoguht. Good. He too is uisng his mnid.
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