As a species we have excelled because we’re really good (and driven) to categorize/sort things we see and to find shortcuts whenever we can. That may have helped the hunter gatherers or the proto-humans find ingenious ways of survival, but it sure can cause a mess when we aren’t present enough to fully see what’s going on with those around us or our situation.
Perhaps the worst is when someone affixes our label. Someone who may not even know themselves that well gives us a label. We start to believe it, then grow into it.
As a species we have excelled because we’re really good (and driven) to categorize/sort things we see and to find shortcuts whenever we can. That may have helped the hunter gatherers or the proto-humans find ingenious ways of survival, but it sure can cause a mess when we aren’t present enough to fully see what’s going on with those around us or our situation.
Perhaps the worst is when someone affixes our label. Someone who may not even know themselves that well gives us a label. We start to believe it, then grow into it.