Human beings have been blessed (and cursed) with self-awareness, whereas it seems that a Linx or Cheetah benefits from the immediacy of their reality. Have you heard of a Linx wallowing in her troubled past? Have you ever turned on NatGeo to see an anxious cheetah biting its nails as he worries about the potential of a summer drought?
Living outside of the moment? That’s human stuff.
Our liberty to ponder the future and ruminate on the past is the seed that makes us meaning-making beings. It surely has its perks, but the downside is quite the burden, as well.
In fact, an ancestral survival strategy for humans has become this narrative process of creating meaning. It’s a very human ideal to notice an event and then create a story to explain why that event happened. It makes us skeptical of randomness and quick to assign meaning to meaningless events, which helps us learn from past tragedies, what berries to eat, and what nuanced things about a body of water would help to catch fish, for example.
As the title jokes, however, this meaning-making tendency is a source of great human suffering. In fact, humans succumb to a narrative fallacy in ways that tragically paralyze their potential in life for decades. It can cement insecurities and incorrectly explain past failures as having some association with them as a person.
My ask is simple: leave room for the possibility that life is much more random than your intuition wants to believe.
1/20/25 WOD
DEUCE Athletics GPP
Closed – Holiday
DEUCE Garage GPP
10-10-10-10
Reactive Push Press
Complete 3 rounds for quality of
10 Paused Yates Row
50% Max Push Ups
Then, complete 4 rounds for reps of:
:45 Max Double Unders
-Rest 2:15-