Over the last weeks, I came back to the idea of fox vs. hedgehog by Isaiah Berlin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox): “a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing”. In the past I thought my thinking is more of the hedgehog type (rather axiomatic, tree like structure with a deep root). The thing with such assessments is the problem of meta-self-cognition: what you are vs. what you think you are vs. what you like yourself to be.

Over the past year I started to write notes, at times even an intermittent diary for a couple of days, sometimes weeks. I discovered that my mind perhaps is not behaving like a hedgehog type after all. In retrospect, my notes are scattered pieced of memories, loose tidbits, quips, quotes, metaphors I come up with, or I read. The thing is, however, that I seem to be quite good in connecting those independent dots. Disconnected thoughts and scraps of stuff collected at around the same time tend to take a shape of a connected network of thoughts which then mold and over time grow into a interconnected network of bigger thoughts. All that, however, happens mostly intuitively, not as a directed effort - although at times that too, when I focus on studying some topic of actual interest of mine.

So what is it? It seems like what a fox would do: many loosely connected things which over time seem to take a shape of a deeper rooted tree. It seems after all, my mind seems to meander and bounce between the two sides as it sees actually fit. A fox which desires to become a hedgehog one day?