Jump-Starts — Part 2

I made a mistake.

Last week I wrote about the parallelism between my Subaru battery woes and the use of SSRIs for depression; I raised the concern about how our current approaches are problematic due to our habit of over-solutioning and obfuscating systems (any and all) by which we hide and remove fundamentals.

I shared the previous post with number of people and one colleague indirectly shared a different perspective. He told me about how he went on YouTube and found a video for his car about how to shift to neutral with modern starter systems.

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I made a mistake. I wrongly assumed how my car works and asserted that manufacturers threw out the fundamentals. It’s rather the implementation of fundamentals that are now different.

I asked the wrong questions. The answer was available with the right set of questions. Instead of asking “why”, I should’ve asked “how”.

Over some years, some new notable books popped up regarding life’s fundamentals and how they touch on human wellbeing: Jordan Peterson’s 12 Principles of Life and Johann Hari’s Lost Connections. Both works establish core fundamentals on the human condition from their own perspectives, learnings, and experiences; the former being rooted more academically and professionally. Further, the authors applied their fundamentals specifically for the modernity.

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It was immediately clear to me, just like my battery gaffe epiphany, we are simply asking the wrong questions.

So, what questions do we need to ask?

That one; because it leads to help.

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52 | 250 (fifty two | two fifty), a collection of random, recurring, ruminations written with patience for depth and brevity. Each post is written over the course of a week in 250 words or less as a personal exercise of freedom and focus in a time of placid tumult and despair.