The Dark Matter Between Failure and Success

We find our own path to get healthy and stay healthy.

January 09, 2022

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedTiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’Tiger got to sleep,Bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.- Kurt Vonnegut

We like to think we understand things better than we do. 

We tell ourselves all kinds of stuff. We rationalize. We even explain all these things we don’t understand to others. 

While in reality almost everything is beyond our grasp. 

Sure, we catch shards of truth occasionally, shadows on the wall for the Platonists or whatever.

This is no less true for human psychology and undetermined motivations. 

We have an insight or make an observation and tell ourselves we understand. 

Here, look at this two dimensional slide of the human brain.

We have no clue how that thing works, just like we have no clue what might have happened before the big bang, or if there even was a big bang.

Still, we do create our own truths even if they are subjective.

We write our own stories. This is the thing.

How People Change

There’s a lot of theories about how people change. Some of them have empirical evidence supporting them. 

Facilitators of all stripes (psychologists, teachers, trainers, clergy, coaches, etc.) keep pet wisdoms, preferred approaches, and schools of thought.

These are chapters in the stories that resonate for the facilitators. 

These can be helpful to us too. These can inspire us. Still, they are the stories we hear from others. They are not fully our own.

Finding Our Own Path to Good Health

Dark Matter is a term astrophysicists use for matter they believe exists in the universe but has not been observed. According to NASA, 85% of all the matter in the universe is dark matter.

We don't know much about the universe just like we don’t know much about the space between failure and success.

There’s no one universal success formula even while some with great conviction insist there is.

We find our own path to get healthy and stay healthy. 

We write our own story, one that syncs with who we are, what we believe, and how we approach the world.

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