Is This Real Life?
Personality testing is a booming business; inevitably, there's a business to build on top of the results. Classifying things, or in this case, people is a step in a series that ultimately leads to the creation of personalized products, services, supplements, etc., based on determined personality.
I'll cop to taking several of them over the years. I find that Enneagram feels the most accurate, though not without some things that are simply inaccurate.
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralise the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be
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It’s tempting to trade credibility for fame.
Seth Godin • The fame/trust inversion
I was lucky enough to see a live screening with the filmmaker and cannot recommend it more highly. Even if you’re only casually aware of Eno’s work, you are sure to enjoy this.
The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.