Elimination Destination Nation

Ah, the human reasoning power, what a marvelous thing it is. We have all been gifted with amazing mental power beyond what has been seen on earth (or at least we think ;) ) before. With our amazing  mental reasoning we can be faster than any cheetah, swim deeper than any blobfish, and possibly live longer than any tortoise.

But among all of the powers of the human mind, what of which is the crowned gem?

As per most things, the answer varies depending on who you're talking to, and there's nothing wrong with not having a definitive answer if it lets us explore more (versus amusing things just to have an answer).

So I'm going to make the assumption that in my point of view, the process of elimination is the most valuable reasoning tactic that humans have in our tool belts of intellectual thoughts.

The process of elimination probably became most relevant in our lives when we entered 3rd grade and were handed our very first, at least in the state of Iowa, notable standardized test. We were given the down low on how to succeed on these bubble sheets from hell, and the biggest thing was elimination. If you don't know the answer for sure, at least narrow down the answers and then guess. It was a great method and anyone who learned to use it correctly could easily hone their reasoning skills quickly and perform very well on standardized testing.

However, what about outside of the school area? What is the usefulness there?

One notable example of our amazing ability of the process of elimination is death.

By death I mean murder.

By murder I mean murder mystery.

I am very familiar with murder mystery, but not in a creepy way, I promise. From a young age I have been enveloped by shows like Dateline and CSI Miami as my mother is a huge mystery enthusiast (as a child she read every Nancy Drew mystery novel in the world, and all of them are in our basement).

It is amazing how these mysteries can be solved sometimes; it almost seems super-human in ability to solve these murders. Yet when we peel away the sensationalism, we can see that all of these murders or mysteries are solved via the process of elimination as well.

These detectives use clues to narrow down the options of suspects, they eliminate to one or two people and pursue them.

It's amazing because almost anyone could do this if they knew were to look, we all have this ability within us.

So the process of elimation, it's pretty cool.