Creating “Food For Thought”
What makes my thoughts or ideas any more or less prophetic, important, or meaningful than anyone else’s?
I’m sure I could say some things that some people in search of such wisdom haven’t heard before. They’d probably be rather impressed with what I’d communicate. Who knows though…if I were referencing commonly held beliefs or affirmations often heard in circles that others just haven’t encountered yet, perhaps they would hear the same thing somewhere else along their journey anyway. Isn’t there a phrase about: “When the student is ready, the teacher will be there”?
At the same time, sometimes we just need to hear things multiple times in different ways before they sink in or trigger us into action.
I could spend a considerable amount of time writing something like an ebook that no one will ever read either because it wasn’t of interest or because I didn’t know how to get it in the right hands.
What’s the opportunity cost of anyone’s time spent doing anything?
If “laughter is the best medicine”, might we all not be as well off just watching a bunch of sitcoms rather than doing something futile?
Yet, keeping an unwritten idea alive in one’s mind takes up a lot of energy and space that could likely be utilized more effectively for other things. True?
I guess in the end we never know what really matters. What makes us happy could be one criteria. What pays off in some way (either for our own pocketbooks or in helping someone else) might be another possible criteria.
Then there’s the “do no harm” part that we could all inadvertently cause in spite of the best of intentions, too.
Maybe simply adding a disclaimer that the writer don’t know everything about anything might help portray the provided ”advice” as “food for thought” and prevent it from inadvertently being blindly followed by anyone.
But then again, being polarizing is what attracts attention and sells.
In the end, this just makes me wonder how marketable something intricate, compelling, yet interestingly inconclusive could possibly be? And, there is just one way to find the answer to that question…and it seems that will involve doing, and not only thinking and wondering about it.
