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To me the picture shows that the more we understand the less we understand. When I first looked at the picutre I had no doubt that the pieces were falling down. It fits my understanding of the world, however as some pointed out they could be floating up. That well could be. The thing is that I thought I understood the picture yet maybe I was all wrong. We only understand things in our point of view.

On the net the other day I read that you have to praise your children the "right" way. They said that you don't tell your child he/she is smart you tell them that their work shows a lot of effort and they did a good job. It reminded me of a time sitting at the table working on homework with my daughter. I was telling her she was smart and could do this. She was saying that she wasn't smart because she couldn't do it. What I said and what she understood were two different things. What I said was that her brain is able to do the work and that if she tries she will make it. What she understood was that if she was as smart as I thought she was she wouldn't have to work that hard to get it. We each thought we understood what was going on but neither of us did.

Again I say that the more we think we understand the less we do understand.