The Man Who Failed At Almost Everything

Once upon a time, in a land not too far from here, lived a man who didn’t have that many talents.

He didn’t have a gift and he didn’t have a calling. For the purpose of this story, we’ll call him John — because John sounds normal and stable and fun and relatable.

Like the programmer in your company, or the accountant in the department next to yours.

John always liked to explore. He was inquisitive to a fault, and liked to ask questions about why things were the way they were.

Especially why people were the way they were — and by extension why he was the way he was.

John liked this question most of all, because he knew that no one had all the answers.

It wasn’t something you could look up online, or be told by someone in the know — John had to figure it out for himself.

People were hard problems to solve — John himself was a pretty hard problem to solve.

John did what he could to understand how his mind worked, and why it worked the way it did. He read books on the mind and psychology and personal development and NLP and neuroscience and books on evolution to gather exactly why and how his mind came to be the way it was.