I read this post several years ago, but I was… basically just trapped in a “finishing high school and then college” narrative at the time, it didn’t really seem like I could use this idea to actually make any changes in my life… And then a few months ago, as I was finishing up my last semester of college, I sort of fell head first into Mythic Mode without understanding what I was doing very much at all.
And I’d say it made a lot of things better, definitely—the old narrative was a terrible one for me—but it was rocky in some ways, and… like, obviously thoughts like “confirmation bias” etc were occurring to me, but “there are biases involved here” doesn’t, really, in and of itself tell you what to do?
It would make sense if there’s some extent to which everyone who spent the first part of their life following along with a simple “go to school and then get a job i guess” script is going to have a substantial adjustment period once they start having some more interesting life experiences, but… also seems plausible that if I’d read a lot more about this sort of thing I’d’ve been better equipped.
I read this post several years ago, but I was… basically just trapped in a “finishing high school and then college” narrative at the time, it didn’t really seem like I could use this idea to actually make any changes in my life… And then a few months ago, as I was finishing up my last semester of college, I sort of fell head first into Mythic Mode without understanding what I was doing very much at all.
And I’d say it made a lot of things better, definitely—the old narrative was a terrible one for me—but it was rocky in some ways, and… like, obviously thoughts like “confirmation bias” etc were occurring to me, but “there are biases involved here” doesn’t, really, in and of itself tell you what to do?
It would make sense if there’s some extent to which everyone who spent the first part of their life following along with a simple “go to school and then get a job i guess” script is going to have a substantial adjustment period once they start having some more interesting life experiences, but… also seems plausible that if I’d read a lot more about this sort of thing I’d’ve been better equipped.