Mimetic Traps
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Mimetic Traps
One of the more beneficial investments we can make at any age is stepping back and honestly assessing who we are, how we're spending our time and energy, and what we actually care about (ideally we do this semi-regularly).
This is a heftier undertaking than it superficially seems, because it requires we analyze what we're doing with our lives, what we care about, and how we might do things better from a slight distance—and that could result in a forced acknowledgement of painful truths (like, for instance, that we've been investing a lot of finite resources in work we don't actually care about, relationships that are draining rather than fueling us, etc).
I like the concept of the "mimetic trap" because it provides a shorthand explanation for how and why we so easily slide into situations that—once we allow ourselves to assess them somewhat objectively—are clearly not ideal for the outcomes we hope to achieve.
This is a good piece on mimetic traps, oriented around an example that may resonate with you: https://www.briantimar.com/notes/mimetic/mimetic/
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