Liberty Begins At Home

Knowledge.

Looking at it like a whole is overwhelming. There’s too much of it to explore in one lifetime.

And too much to leave to chance for not knowing enough.

…Right?

Because there’s not enough time in the day to look at everything that could be useful or might harm us. Otherwise we’re stuck learning and finding until we don’t have enough energy to feed ourselves.

If only there was an easy way out!

Choose easy. Live hard.

We tried it. It’s called technocracy.

The easy way out is to surrender what we need to know to “experts”. People with more time, education, and practice that can come up with a better answer than we could putting in our own effort.

That frees us up to pursue other value-added things. It also requires trust to make it work long term.

Except experts tend to serve themselves over time. Because it’s easier to reinforce systems that got them to where they are than serve those put under their charge.

If experts can fudge the extent of their expertise because the people they’re advising don’t know any better?

Especially if there’s monetary gain on the other end of it?

That’s where a society of pull comes in. No one wins that game.

Don’t forget what happened with the last power grab from “experts.”

COVID was a spark. So what’s the fire?

Keep it simple

So what can one person do against a mountain of knowledge to manage never-ending needs?

For starters, things aren’t as unique as you want them to be.

Read that sentence again.

Yes, what is like is not the same, but most things are similar enough.

So similar, in fact, you can look at another field outside the problem you’re facing to find the way forward.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

What do I mean by that?

The process for making diamond dust came from another one that exploded stems off bell peppers by raising and then dropping the air pressure.

Better padding in car seats for surviving a crash came from the heel of a catcher’s mitt.

JavaScript code and modular high rise construction came from two brothers who disassembled the same toaster.

The process

It just takes four steps:

1. Break down to the basics what you’re facing
2. Find another problem with the same basics
3. See how the other problem was solved
4. Apply that solution to your situation

The promise

Guess what?

We now have unprecedented access to cases of people solving problems similar to ours.

The only thing holding us back is comfort.

Stop thinking about everything you need to do to protect yourself from all the harm in the universe…

 …start thinking about what you need to do next.

So you can move forward with enough confidence that you’ll survive the next choice.

And even enjoy the result.

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