A fascinating story (during World War II) from the book “Bugles and a Tiger, My Life in the Ghurkas” by John Masters:
“A Ghurka rifleman escaped from a Japanese prison in south Burma and walked six hundred miles alone through the jungles to freedom. The journey took him five months, but he never asked the way, and he never lost the way. For one thing, he could not speak Burmese, and for another, he regarded all Burmese as traitors. He used a map, and when he reached India, he showed it to the Intelligence officers, who wanted to know all about his odyssey. Marked in pencil where all the turns he had taken, all the roads and trail forks he has passed, all the rivers he had crossed. It had served him well, that map. The Intelligence officers did not find it so useful. It was a street map of London.”
What happens when your map to success is incorrect?
Even with the wrong map, the right 'compass' can still guide you to your destination—if you know how to use it properly.
Where are you heading?
#TrueNorth
Charles Taylor’s conception of the ‘self in moral space’ in Sources of the Self:
“We feel that the content and value of every hour stands between a higher and a lower; every thought between a wiser and a more foolish; every possession between a more extended and a more limited; every deed between a greater and a lesser measure of meaning, adequacy, and morality. We are continually orienting ourselves, even when we do not employ abstract concepts, to an “over us” and an “under us,” to a right and a left, to a more or less, a tighter or looser, a better or worse. The boundary, above and below, is our means for finding direction in the infinite space of our worlds.”
Modern identity's search in-betweens...
#CriticalRealism #ModernIdentity #LateNightReading
“Be careful about what you tolerate, you are teaching people how to treat you.”
I want to add to this:
Be careful about mediocrity; you are showing people your worth. Being kind, generous and passionate doesn't mean you have to put up with second-rate BS dynamics or settle down with less than you care, offer or create.
#LiveAuthentically