This is a follow-up to my yesterday's post. I am trying to answer my own question, why we get enthusiastic about something, and all of a sudden we abandon it. Remember the boy who was a great performer? He stopped when he realised that he may have not appeared to the public in the same was as he appeared to himself. In other words, his self-image was shattered. Destroyed. Nullified.
He used to perform because that fed his self-image, he liked it, he was motivated and he was happy. Yes, it was all tinted by the filters of his own perception, and the public perception. And the tinting was colourful and positive, the public loved him and he loved himself too.
The so-called "objective" perception software showed him the way he appeared without the filters. The challenge bit was that it did not represent the way the public perceived him. The public had the filtering spectacles on their glasses, and they loved him too. But he trusted the "objective" critic.
The big paradox that I see in life is that we seem to run on things that boost our self-image. As long as we are happy with that, the people around us are happy with that, and we follow a set of sensible values, is there a need to correct it?
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