I basically agree. Hence this post, which I hope says more than just “get out of the car,” but provides additional tools.
There’s a sort of egging on that I think is going on when people keep repeating “get out of the car.” And I think it works. It’s something like… trying to get the person frustrated enough to look outside of the space of the solutions they’ve looked at already. Or, may be more accurately, reexamine more of their assumptions than they have so far. I think it works for people who already want to “get out of the car”. But I also agree that it has a bit of the higher-than-thou tone. Some people respond to that, some people find it off putting. I tried to do both, but who knows how well that turned out.
I basically agree. Hence this post, which I hope says more than just “get out of the car,” but provides additional tools.
There’s a sort of egging on that I think is going on when people keep repeating “get out of the car.” And I think it works. It’s something like… trying to get the person frustrated enough to look outside of the space of the solutions they’ve looked at already. Or, may be more accurately, reexamine more of their assumptions than they have so far. I think it works for people who already want to “get out of the car”. But I also agree that it has a bit of the higher-than-thou tone. Some people respond to that, some people find it off putting. I tried to do both, but who knows how well that turned out.
This is basically the core idea behind zen.