I'm not sure whether exponentialism is a word. If not, I have invented it. I'll be on to the OED in the morning. My definition is "the religion of solving jigsaw puzzles". Put simply, if I have 800 pieces of a 1,000 piece puzzle still to be placed, and I spend one hour today working on the puzzle, I might expect to correctly place say one piece, whilst when I have only 50 pieces still to be placed, I would expect to place all of them within the hour. The placing success grows at an exponential rate rather than a linear one. [Ed: You have a strange definition of "simply", Nigel]
I am a worshipper of exponentialism. It gives me hope in the dark days when pieces don't fit and I simply can't find that piece with a green stripe and a dash of yellow on the tongue. It gives me belief that I will eventually solve the puzzle. It gives me joy in the company of shared believers in the healing powers of puzzling.
Regular readers will know of my difficulties with my Starry Night puzzle. I get great succour from the experiences of a fellow disciple of exponentialism, Hugh Jackman:
ReplyDelete‘Exponentialism is a contemporary philosophy aimed at understanding the impact of accelerating change on the human adaptive experience; coined by artist and writer Alexandre Fuchs (born 1966).’
And I didn’t understand that at all, but what a wonderful clip. We await success.
And - I shall make a comment about football! There wasn’t any at the Valley today. The Valley was flooded. The rain gods have smiled on Charlton.
There's goes my OED new word of the year award...
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