Being authentic is usually just a concept for most.
Why the heck is that?
Fear of appearing weak?
Probably.
It was for me.
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Being authentic is usually just a concept for most
Tag: Paradox
What about those mothers?
Big rush on Facebook yesterday for Mother’s Day.
Does anyone else get a surreal feeling while on Facebook? Facebook is really getting weird for me. It runs hot and cold. People tend to share their very best and their very worst, with a little plain vanilla.
- What about the women who will never be Mothers?
- What about the women who used to be Mothers, but no longer are?
- What about the midlifer’s who grew up without a Mother?
- What about those with Mothers they aren’t close to?
So, for everyone who was reminded that yesterday was Mother’s Day…
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
— Rudyard Kipling
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The opportunity of constraint
Our list of excuses is long. And creative. And of course includes the five universal hall-of-fame excuses.
The opportunity hidden in constraint is embracing and overcoming the lack of:
- time
- money
- resources
- education
- experience
Is it a midlife crisis or a midlife celebration?
Up to each of us to individually decide.
Our decision to change or not change changes everything.
Everything.
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The genius and risk of human shortcuts
Heuristics, defined here, may be getting in our way.
Or, they may be what leads to our breakthrough.
Alas, life is tough.
Much of our life is based on fairy tale imprinting.
Our brain compensates by accepting prevailing thoughts or concepts that may no longer be true – and may have never been true.
Heuristics are human shortcuts that allow busy, distracted humans to quickly process things and reach conclusions.
Or maybe we just make it tough because we aren’t willing to buck the heuristics.
Buck the heuristics. Double entendre intended.
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Rethinking looks good on paper
Rethinking public education in 2015 makes sense to Baby Boomers.
Rethinking mid-life, right now, is a much tougher sell to Boomers.
In either case, it is done to change the trajectory.
The 2nd best time to rethink was yesterday.
The best time is today.
Do something that scares you, or something you “absolutely don’t have time for”, like take a walk outside.
Ask, “Am I satisfied?”
A summary of how and why Finland is rethinking education is here.
(Summary: By 2020, Finland plans to phase out teaching individual subjects such as math, chemistry and physics, and instead teach students by ‘topics’ or broad phenomena, so that there’s no more question about “what’s the point of learning this?”)
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