"How many of you have ever walked into a room and wondered（想知道） why did I come here in the first place? Or maybe you left something behind, your pencil case for example, and you have to circle the entire（全部的） house before coming back to the place where you originally（ 最初） started, only to find it sitting right there. Anyone had any similar experiences? Great! For me it's things like this that define（给…下定义） my life. My friends know me for continuously losing my water bottle. Among other things, I am in every sense of the word a scatterbrain.

  And I was feeling pretty foolish about it myself until I read this article about this book called "Where Good Ideas Come From The Natural History of Innovation（创新）". And in it, the author, Stephen Johnson, compares settlements（解决） of different types, like cities and towns, noting（注意） that as cities get bigger, they generate（产生） ideas at a faster clip（（塑料或金属的）夹子）. Why? Because of the increase in number of ideas in a fixed area. So in our context, a scatterbrain can be seen as a metropolis（大都市） with bits of disorganized information floating（漂浮） around, constantly（不断地） crashing（碰撞） into each other. It's messy. But it's also more likely for two unrelated ideas to collide（碰撞）, giving rise（ 上升） to new innovations（创新） like hip（臀部）-hop ballet fusion or the use of math to formulate a harmonic melody.

  So in essence（本质）, a scatterbrain then becomes a source of creativity（创造力） and innovation（创新）. And therefore（因此）, it's just as Stephen Johnson said, the more disorganized your brain is, the smarter（聪明的） you are. Now, considering that I had the potential（潜能） of being the queen of scatterbrains, I was feeling pretty good about myself. But another part of me started to wonder, hold up, if you're such a genius（天才）, then how come none of your ideas ever take shape? And that brings us to the greatest disaster faced（向） by all scatterbrains, flooding. It happens internally（内部地） and externally（外部地）.

  Let me explain. Now, I don't know about you, but 90% of the best ideas I have ever had have come to me when I'm in the shower. So I might have an English literature（文学） essay due（预期的） the next day, and I might be shampooing（洗发） my hair when, all of a sudden（ 突然的）, this line pops（ 发出“砰”的一声） up in my head. Despite（不管） his high status（身份）, Othello, the tragic（ 悲惨的） hero, eventually（终于） falls to his doom（劫数） due（预期的） to jealousy, his greatest'mertia. And I'm like（喜欢）, yes, this will make a top-notch（槽口） literature（文学） sentence. So I quickly finish showering, get my clothes on, seat（使…坐下） myself at my table, pen and paper in hand, ready to write that golden（金色的） essay.

  And I reach into my head to find that line, only to find lyrics（抒情诗） to a Michael Jackson song. Or images from the last movie I watched. In the end, I'm just left there thinking, hmm, I have this really nice way of saying Othello dies. What was it again? My mind is so flooded（淹没） that I can't find that sentence I came up with just two minutes ago. The second type of flooding happens externally by people putting things in your brain.

  So, for example, I might be on my way to school and my mom would say, hey, why don't you buy this chocolate from this particular shop? Because apparently（显然地） it tastes really good. And then I'd go to school and I'd get attacked by an arsenal（兵工厂） of math equations（方程式）. And then I might go to lunch and my friends would give me this list of movies to remember to watch over the weekend. And the day would go on and on with things piling（堆叠） in my head until finally it looks something like this. This, my friends, is what a scatter（分散） brain looks like.

  All those pieces of paper are bits of information that people put in your brain. And sometimes they go in, sometimes they don't. And in this mess（混乱）, the chances of remembering to look at the information that says, remember your bottle, well, that's pretty slim.