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Ignorance Really is Bliss
In today’s world, we consume information like addicts in withdrawal, desperate for our next fix.
The thought leaders of our day, as they so humbly call themselves, have unparalleled access to our hearts and minds and we dutifully hang off every word they say in the hope that we can one day follow in their footsteps. We look up to the rich and successful like deities with superhuman abilities who can seemingly turn anything they touch into gold.
We exaggerate our own flaws and give all our time and energy to those who are having their precious moment in the sun. It makes us increasingly homogenized as a species as we look for success and happiness in all the same places.
Intrinsic motivation and intuition are seen as an unreliable catalyst for action and change. Instead, we’re told to rely stoically on self-discipline, goal setting, and mentorship.
The rampant rise of technology has our efficiency obsessed culture focused on metrics. Everything has to be a worthy use of our time, so we analyse ourselves and each other like never before. Nothing is worth doing unless we can record it in spreadsheets, so that we can proudly recount, to anyone that will listen, the impressive number of books we’ve read over the past year.
We just need a little more knowledge, a little more experience, a few more…
