If you’re problems aren’t going away, chances are it’s because you aren’t diagnosing them correctly. Getting to the root cause of what’s wrong in your life (and in the world at large) takes more than smart answers.
It takes wise questions, an open mind and a willingness to look for the value in the opinions of those who see things the counter opposite of you.
I arrived home from two weeks with my family in Nepal on Sunday feeling a bit off colour. As the week wore on, I realised I must have brought back some lovely little Nepalese bug with me.
Such is life right? People pick up bugs. Venture to a country with sanitation and hygiene standards that would make most in the west cringe, and the odds of picking up a bug go up exponentially. Yesterday my doctor said he wasn’t exactly sure what was wrong but wrote me a prescription for four horse tablets to treat Giardia. Here’s hoping.
But it’s got me thinking: how often do we misdiagnose the problems in our world and then try to remedy them the wrong way? In my experience (but hopefully not in my current predicament), far too often! [Read more…]