Grandma’s Random Thought Processes Versus Flowchart Symbology

Have you ever been involved in a deep and focused discussion or process, and then wanted to completely destroy its focus and logical flow? If so, bring in Grandma as a consultant. We guarantee satisfaction!

Grandma can enter any conversation or meeting, regardless of topic, and fairly quickly devolve it into chaotic discussion of random content. This content will be of her choosing, and will have nothing whatsoever to do with the initial discussion points or priorities of the conversation. Just some of her “go-to” redirections include passing birds, ailments (of whoever), old movies, and past travels. With but few words, she can transform the planning of a trip to a review of someone’s gall bladder surgery. Grandma easily shifts from topics fit for a Manhattan boardroom to a caterpillar on a stick.

Her brain’s association cortex is capacious and hyperactive, yet also largely unsupervised. Grandma’s frontal cortex long ago ceased trying to impose attention and organization on her associative brain centers. She also has 86 years of data storage, and she instinctively applies it in the most disruptive possible ways.

So what’s up with flowcharts? Flowcharts are a time-honored diagrammatic tool to illustrate the logical flow of processes. They combine functional symbology with directional connectivity to illustrate everything from software design to widget manufacturing to wedding planning. The shapes of cells used in flowcharts code for different components of a process or Boolean operators.

Grandma’s thought processes are to flowcharts what the cretaceous asteroid impact was to dinosaurs. And this is just one of the many reasons we love her! She is available by appointment only on terms negotiable by her grandkids, but not by her, which would be quite impossible.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to creately for their online flowchart creation tool. Check it out!