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The past is not true . . . but self-help author Derek Sivers is? Somehow I'm not as convinced as he is that it was a really good thing to break someone's spine
by drewcoo 3y ago
The past is not true . . . but self-help author Derek Sivers is?
Somehow I'm not as convinced as he is that it was a really good thing to break someone's spine years ago because he was a teenager who didn't follow road signs.
- tombert 3y agoI am not a fan of self help stuff, but I think that’s a somewhat uncharitable reading of the article; I don’t think he was implying that it was “good” to break someone’s spine. I think it was saying that it’s very easy to convince yourself of something much worse than reality. He felt guilty because he thought he ruined a woman’s life forever, he felt immense guilt over that, when in reality the woman mostly recovered, not that it was good the accident happened. I thought The idea is that a slight misunderstanding of the can have a severe “compound interest rate”.