I’ve always been an extremely left-brainy guy.
Few things give me as much joy as making sense of the world using language.
Frameworks, models, labels, these kind of things.
But it’s becoming increasingly obvious to me how limiting this approach is.
For example, the elegant frameworks you read about in self-help and business books never work as promised. Never.
But there is no malicious intent. People aren’t intentionally lying. They don’t sit down thinking “let me come up with some nonsense to fool people”.
At the same time, some people very clearly do better in life and I don’t think it’s entirely random or due to some hidden unfair advantages.
Some people do have certain things figured out.
The real... (read 1508 more words →)
