Category: The Herd

The secret burial place of life’s hidden treasure has been found

Community public park near Disney's Magic Kingdom
X marks the spot (for the buried treasure, right?)

 

The ugly truth about self awareness most of us lie about?

That the unexamined life is not worth living is an epidemic.

Too many brutal truths are revealed about our flaws, our faults, our hypocrisy, our ignorance.

Few of us are brave enough to spend our lives mastering the art.

And only those that do know where life’s treasure is buried…

Self awareness gets exponentially better the longer we pursue it.

The good news?

We only have to work on this one day at a time.

And we can do it in small, bite-sized chunks.

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The Herd Defined

Mid Life Celebration, jeff noel, and The Blog Whisperer, all define The Herd as:

  • Status Quo
  • Risk Free
  • Regretful
  • Crowded
  • Lonely
  • Followers
  • Comfortable
  • Complacent
  • Compliant
  • Fearful
  • Reliant
  • Unexamined

It’s the common path. The massive path. The unexamined path. The path that takes us, unknowingly, to fear and regret.

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Einstein Average Man

“If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make a living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher.  I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances”. — Albert Einstein

Meanwhile in my zip code, there’s a sea of upscale vehicles, yet the 1990 Toyota suites me perfectly.

There’s even a dinner-plate sized dent on the driver’s front fender.  Was going to have it repaired until I realized how much that road-rage induced dent signified how lucky I am to still be alive.

In America, we are constantly tempted to keep up with the Joneses.  Why?   Because we are afraid of who we really are.

Would you rather be loved for who you’re not or hated for who you are?

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