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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I just finished a Margery Allingham "Campion" mystery. The setting was 1930, although I'm not sure but what it might have been written a year or two later than that. But the term "brainstorm" in there seems to mean "brain has taken total leave of its senses and is now totally clinically insane". One doesn't recover from that state -- one character was assumed to have committed a murder for that cause; one character wound up in an asylum and he HAD committed the murder in that state, and was still in that state. Odd that the meaning should have so changed!
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OMG, I no longer want to use it!
I first learned of
brainstorm in college while taking a study skills class. I see the connection to the archaic meaning, however--overpowering emotions, the brain/mind needing to express these emotions--needing a sense of ease and comfort, perhaps the
seven deadly sins (i.e., pride, anger, greed, envy, sloth, gluttony, lust) needing a form of expression. I suppose if one doesn't learn how to be true to oneself--how to express his/her emotions and thoughts in a productive manner, this could happen.
The modern meaning of the word... I guess it has to do with how the mind feels overwhelmed with ideas, concerns, problems needing solutions, tasks needing to be done. It feels as though there's a storm of emotions and thoughts sometimes when I'm brainstorming... thoughts and concerns clamoring for attention. *nods*
My philosophical musings on the word
brainstorm. : )