I spoke with my director at work recently and realized that my favorite question, my claim to fame, my entire essence of being is setting me up for disaster.
My favorite question:
Why?
It has made my teachers salivate because I seem engaged, it has established a niche for me within my friend circle and has been met with mixed reviews in my work place.
He major knowledge that was dropped is that when one asks ‘why’ it is great, but you can get trapped in a ‘why loop’ if you don’t focus enough on the ‘what.’
Think about it this way, once you start asking why you can never stop asking why. It is the intellectual’s dilemma. I am too much of an intellectual, and am trying to reframe my happiness so that I can find value (in things other than the quest for ‘why?’).
When he said this to me, I was just like
Wow, that is heavy. It’s so deep, yet so real. Wow, that’s heavy.
The Alterrealist 