I'm now into the Speedbuilding portion of Court Reporting school. It's extremely difficult but I feel like I make a little progress each day. Our instructor sent us this story and it's such an encouragement to me to keep going, keep working and soon I'll get there! I wanted to share this because it's pretty darn cool.
A federal court report was taking the testimony of a neuropsychologist who was discussing the complexity of the human brain.
This is what he said:
Neuropsychologist: "May I give an example of this?"
Counsel: "Sure."
Neuropsychologist: "Okay. If you look--and the example is this: Our brains are a miracle. Okay? They're a miracle that needs to be protected. And if you look at the court reporter right now, as an example, okay, this is a miracle in progress happening right before your eyes.
Let me explain what she needs to do. I am speaking, so the information has to come in through her ear into her temporal lobe, and it has to go log itself into the language center. She has to be able to comprehend what I'm saying.
Then it has to get rerouted to the prefrontal cortex where it has to hold--she has to be able to hold the information, because, you know, I continuously talk so she has to hold it. Right? Then she has to analyze it, integrate it, and synthesize it. Then it has to go back to the cerebellum and she has to be able to execute this, and she has to be able to then convert my words into those little squiggly marks. Have you ever seen court reporters have little squiggly language things?
So she has to convert it into a different language, and the white matter tracks allow her to reroute all of this information simultaneously without effort. Okay.
We take our brains for granted. She's sitting here. I'm probably talking too fast for her, but she's able to do this simultaneously. Seamlessly. Okay? No animal on the planet can do this. All right? That's why I believe court reporters will never be replaced. Because no technical--no technology could replace the beauty of that brain and the miracle of that brain. And that's why you brain should always be protected and you should take care of it."
Wow! How awesome is that! Think of all the miracles our brains perform for us every day...every minute!
