The Hiding Hand Principle or do you see enough reason to change?

I just read a book review by Malcolm Gladwell. I like to read his prose… He is easy to read, his writing has an easy flair, and his topics are interesting.

He writes about a man I have never heard about, Albert O. Hirschman, an economist, who I recognize myself in.

He is everything most people aren’t.

He said that you don’t need creativity unless something gets screwed up, and things don’t go as planned.

That when the going is smooth, no growth, no invention, no evolution happens. Neither personal, nor species evolution.

When you look at yourself, you detect a deep abiding commitment to easy, smooth, a set certain path, an environment where you know the rules and the rules fit you, health that doesn’t give you challenges. Teachers that tell you do a and b and c and you’ll get what you want.

And, to your utter horror, all this gives you is misery. A hollow life. A life in which you are not needed for it to work well…

If you come to me, and some do… lol… I explain that the way life works best is to make wild turns into…