lol, we’re all writing the same thing. I’ll give you one example, because I particularly liked it. My therapist always talks about separating people from problems, and I never had any idea wtf he was talking about. And then he gave me this exercise where he was like, “let’s construct a narrative where this person’s eccentric personality makes them really good at something specific. Where would you expect a person like that to encounter friction and how would you manage it?”

It was sort of fun, we talked about how Arthur Schawlow (who co-invented the laser and won the Nobel prize) was banned from driving on Stanford campus and had to be chauffeured. And I finally understood what he was talking about; you can access this perspective for anybody by constructing such a narrative. What if everybody’s a misunderstood genius at something? Why not? How would you live in such a world? One insight among many.

I had to come back and comment because your "misunderstood genius" really resonated with me.

It's even beyond that, in my opinion. What if everyone had perfect health, physically and mentally, and had been educated to the absolutely top tier of their ability to accept? Perfect, individual tutoring? Excellent nutrition?

How much better off would the world be if we framed everything in terms of helping everyone be their best, every day, in every way? How much of the trouble in the world is the result of just... accidental awfulness, that we collectively could just choose to stop?

It makes me very sad that we live in a world where potential Nobel winners are dying of easily preventable causes, or working dead-end jobs.