I realized something about my own wiring when I watched soiled stains come out of a silk blouse. The Trivium tool became personal and provided me with energy sparks I needed to solve a small problem. When I saw the stains come out, the impact of the experience was strong enough to create what I’ll term as “Hardwired with the Trivium” in my brain. A specific thought pops up each time I see soiled fabric, and that thought is now a part of my thinking pattern. When I see cotton, and linen I can’t help but wonder what removes stains on those fibers. This post isn’t about soiled fabric; it’s about how hardwiring your brain with the Trivium will provide you an orderly way to learn.

Joseph LeDoux, a renowned neuroscientist from New York University, claims that the brain can hold seven concepts1 at any time.  I don’t know about the seven concepts, but since the Trivium is God’s creation it allows us to tag patterns, and organize information that somehow gets coded into our brain. When you use the Trivium over and over to solve small problems then bigger problems you are ingrained, to the point that eventually you are able to forge new pathways for dealing with new problems. By Hardwiring your brain with the Trivium you are energized, and that can take on a life of it’s own. Further, your energy spurs you into action. When you anchor your ideas in the Trivium they won’t suffer being buried and quickly forgotten, but will serve you well. Think of this as a well- trodden path. Your brain already remembers the path because you have been training it. The way we talk, think, read e-mails, and read books deeply hardwires our brains.

Let’s look at how this happens.

When you encounter new information, new business idea, or a new subject, it gets the same treatment when it enters your brain. It does not matter what form the data is in when it entered your brain; a sound, a smell, a text, a lyric, or an image. When you try to fit this new found data within the framework of the Trivium it causes you to become “Hardwired with the Trivium”.  This doesn’t mean everyone who uses the Trivium will think the same, but we share a commonality in wanting to bring order to a chaotic situation, or solve a problem or simply make sense of a new subject we have never taught in our Homeschool

Intuitively you’ll be looking for new ways to get “Hardwired with the Trivium”.

Reference:

1 Joseph LeDous, Synaptic Self: How Our  Brains Become Who We Are ( New York: Viking Penguin, 2002).

Maribel Hernandez

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