Realizing Empathy | Blog

You choose an option
when you feel
like you have no other choice.

This is either or.

You make a choice,
when creativity strikes and a choice
you didn’t know existed
or you had becomes visible.

This is both
or neither.

p.s: My gratitude goes out to Bill Guschwan, who has inspired this post with some of the most amazing discussions I’ve been able to have around philosophy in his company.

It may be
that when we admit our fear
of death,
we value our loved ones
so much more
than the perception of others
that we decide to do things
without caring too much
what others think.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160208-why-contemplating-death-changes-how-you-think

One way to notice
that we’re genuinely
innovating
is to notice
that we don’t know
what we’re doing.

If we know
what we’re doing
we’re probably just
following the steps
of manufacturing.

Development
has a
grain
as do
a piece
of wood.

Trying to change someone
may go against
their developmental
grain.