One Apple A Day #924 - invisible possibilities
If you push an object of a specific shape, material and weight, applying a defined amount of force in a determined direction, you can predict what will happen with a high level of precision. Maybe, you can even add more variable to the equation, such as temperature, humidity and so on, making your forecast even more accurate.
When it comes to human beings, however, things become way more messy and complicated. Not only the number of variables is infinite, but we don't even know many, if not most, of them.
Even when you find a rule that works for you, that doesn't mean it will work for everyone else. We are all unique in ways we can sense, but we can't always understand.
It is beneficial to extract patterns and distil models from the observation of reality and reflection on experiences.
However, the goal shouldn't be to blindly apply them hoping to get the predicted results. Do this, and you'll get that.
The real goal is to improve our ability to sense amidst the messiness and complexity of human reality. So, we can feed our intuition with a richer set of data, opening up the space for the invisible possibilities.