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The Danger of Basing Relationships & Life On Generalizations
I wanted to call this post A Case For Quantifying Everyday Life, but I was afraid no one would click on it. It sounds too much like work and work that we don’t want anything to do with — data and measurements. Something “those” analysts and IT people like, but people who are trying to get work done avoid. The thing is I think I can make a valid case for why we should consider quantifying our generalizations.
It feels like. It feels like he doesn’t love me, that she doesn’t care, that it will be okay, its never going to end, it will take forever, I am missing out, they are avoiding me, something doesn’t feel right, something is wrong, its time to give up, it feels like he gave up, she is pulling away, or he doesn’t care.
They do it a lot. It happens all the time. Nothing ever happens. He skips over me. She never stops. He always does the wrong thing. We never go out. They always forget. They are always late. She is never early. There isn’t enough time. Time is short. We don’t have enough time. Nothing ever happens.
“I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalize. Generalizations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.” — Agatha Christie, Murder at the…
