How many of our decisions are inherited? How many are embodied? Things we do well. Things we do badly. Not many of our decisions are made with a deep understanding of all the other decisions those decisions affect. That is too high a benchmark.
What we do matters. Actions have consequences. Yet, not everything is cause and effect. We are just one element heavily affected by the ways we were taught. The repetition of parents, teachers, mentors, coaches, family, and friends.
Sometimes it takes events happening to you in later life to trigger patchy memories of something that happened early on. Maybe we hear our parents' voices coming out of our mouths? Maybe we see the expression of a sibling in the mirror. Sometimes I can’t even see the expression, but the muscle memory makes me think of my brothers.
We are very connected. We are built in a world where money is dependent on skills and knowledge, and being paid for those skills within enclosed containers. Skills, knowledge, and barriers (to entry and exit) can compound in the same way wealth does.
Subtle skills like network building, trust, and the ability to communicate, depend on the deep work of being able to understand other people’s problems from their perspective. A lack of shared history makes that challenging.
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