What You Were Really After
THE PRINCIPLE What You Were Really After A person finds a concept interesting and goes deep. Inside it, behind a maze of falsehoods, sit a few small pieces of a truth. The pieces are jumbled, so the point gets missed. 1 CONCEPT 2 FALSEHOODS 3 TIDBITS 4 JUMBLE 5 THE POINT Some concepts are mostly wrong. But they pull people in anyway. A person gets interested, starts digging, and goes deeper and deeper. Most of what they find on the way is false. Then, deep inside, they run into a couple of small pieces that are different. They are fairly clear. They feel like reflections of something real. But they are scattered and mixed up with everything else, so the person never sees what they point at. What they were after was in there the whole time. It just was not what they thought. TOP TAKEAWAYS 01 THE PATTERN Interest in a concept pulls a person deep inside it. 02 THE OBSTACLE COURSE Most of what surrounds the inside of the concept is false. 03 THE TIDBITS A couple of ...