Why don’t we let children vote in elections?
Because they’re not smart, mature or experienced enough for the responsibility.
Fair enough. There’s no real mystery there.
But…
… if it’s not discrimination for its own sake…
… if it’s because of the way children think…
why do we let adults who think like children vote?
Seriously. Plenty of adults resent anyone more successful than they are – being petulant and mainlining copium by saying how they must have cheated their way into success.
Other adults take every criticism and rejection personally. They walk around ready to be petty and throw tantrums at the slightest “insult” – even if it was good feedback. You know – professional, true and exactly what they needed to hear.
Then there are those who don’t seem to have mastered theory of mind yet. They project like wild, spending every moment deep in the assumption that everyone thinks like them.
Honestly?
Plenty of pre-teens are smarter and wiser than folks like this.
That’s why I wrote Your Story Isn’t About You. I used to make those mistakes – and plenty more besides. If I’d had a guide like this when I was younger, I would have skipped a lot of misery and pain.
All of that pain being my own creations, of course.
I was petty, jealous, confused, weak and unhappy.
Figuring out how I was thinking like a child was a big part in me turning that around.
Because we all have moments where we revert – where gravity takes over and pulls us down into naiveté and stupidity.
Children are too petty, emotional and judgemental to have a grasp on the issues.
But are you really any better than they are?
Are you actively deceiving yourself, every day? If you think you aren’t… how can you be sure?
These childish patterns of thought can linger, sabotaging you in strange ways.
The best way to bring them to the surface is by reading, rereading and applying Your Story Isn’t About You. Once you do that with a few dozen symptoms of such solipsistic thinking, you won’t be able to overlook it in yourself.
And you can get your copy using the link in the footer of every email I send.
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