I was listening to a podcast about capacity and the conversation moved to the ability for us to handle complex issues and memories in our brain.  I’d always thought of the analogy of the brain being like a hard-drive that could only handle so many bytes of information so that when we fill up our brain storage with too much data we slow and we forget.  From what I heard on this podcast, I guess that is not a good comparison because the brain is more like an efficiency machine that can take in unlimited information and data but sorts and decides what is most helpful to stay or not to stay.  The example that was used is that we will meet someone that we know we will likely never meet again so the brain decides to not store their name for us to remember in the future.  I find this fascinating and it makes me think that we need better and better tools to store and process all of the information that we take in during our work so that we can access and retrieve it in the future without worry.  We already do it with our Contact lists, CRMS, Cloud Storage, etc., but maybe soon we will be able to store for the access of all data, information and experiences that we come across.

Even though I probably wouldn’t know how to handle it, I’d love to have given to me what God gave Solomon.  Imagine knowledge as vast as the sands of the seashores!  That would be really awesome, wouldn’t it?  What I find exciting about this thinking is that God’s capacity for what He has to give us is truly unlimited.  And, we can reach to Him and count on Him to provide us even more and more knowledge and wisdom for what we need.  So, if we find ourselves in our work pushing more and more up against our own capacities, then when we call upon God for Him to help and lead us, He has plenty more to give.

Reference: 1 Kings 4:29 (New Living Translation)