1 min readJul 1, 2019
No, you’re not Bruno (HE) Mirchevski and both parts of this sentence are dangerous.
- We are not blank at birth. That’s a harmful myth that Jonathan Haidt called the worst idea in psychology ever.
- We do not need to do anything as best as possible. That optimization mindset creates a paralyzing perfectionism in people who cannot live up to the expectation this language creates.
Your article is making an interesting analog between games and life, and you could go a different way that doesn’t rely on either of these two dangerous assertions.
Think of life like a game of serious play.
https://medium.com/productivity-revolution/more-play-more-done-565a613c87c9