We're wired to find meaning in everything, spinning stories about ourselves and others. Seth Godin calls this the "knotty knot of significance," and it traps us. The real trap: we treat situations with no clear solution as problems that need solving.
in the work that we follow others doing. You know, we are looking for meaning. We are looking for significance. And the way that we do that is another fundamental component of being a human being is this consciousness thing, which is basically a big old storytelling device. I'm telling myself a story about me, and I'm telling myself a story about Heat. I'm also very much telling myself a story about the story I think Heat is telling herself about me. Yes. And on and on and on and on. And pretty soon, you know, to quote our friend Seth Godin, we are entangled in this knotty knot of significance that is not really promoting our health, happiness, or forward motion. And so I think that, you know, you know, one of the things about knotty problems is that most of the things that we call problems are actually situations. Like, a problem by definition has a solution. If you can't name what a successful resolution of a problem is and have a way of measuring how close or far away you are getting to that resolution, you don't— you're not addressing a problem, you're addressing a situation. You might be able to
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