Most of the narratives we are fed aren’t true narratives at all. The term is often overused.
Many of these “narratives” are simply conventional wisdom that we mistakenly believe we’ve outgrown.
S. Korea spent $200b trying to increase its birthrate. Hungary spends 5% of GDP.
Both are failing.
Yet the small country of Georgia spiked its birthrate massively without spending a dollar. How?
They understood that fertility isn't about money. It's about status.
reading books for the sake of sharing ideas on twitter ruined my reading experience.
i hunted for word bites and pithy sentences rather than tough, hard to chew ideas of real substance
i cracked open Seneca’s Letter from a Stoic to glean an insight i’ve heard a million times prior, shared on every silly little quote account, rather than find something of substance.
it’s interesting how the lens we consume media with affects what we find in that media.
the structure of our intention colors the canvas before we’ve even begun painting.
as McCluhan said “The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stencilling on the casting of an atomic bomb”
now, this isn’t to say that content of media is unimportant.
the ideas in a tweet or film are relevant.
but the structure of 280 characters or sound + visuals in a 2 hour box - that is as meaningful as what the piece of media is saying.
so my fellow creators or sharers or whatever you call yourself.
before diving into another book or binging another show for the sake of sharing it.
how does your intention color your experience?
mmm.
thanks for coming to this word dump.
bye. luv u.
whoever came up with the game is chess is LITERALLY not from this planet yo! like how you design a game so perfectly? lol the fact that pawns can ONLY take moving diagonal might be the greatest rule of a game ever! lol and I am NOT playin 😂