While reading about Niels Bohr – philosopher, physicist and by all accounts a Danish good egg – I came across a quote which probably has something to do with quantum mechanics.

I say “probably” because I know diddly squat about all this quantum stuff.

Interested observer? 

Yes

Quantum connoisseur?   

Not by the whiskers of Schrodinger's Cat.

But I did read that nifty Niels was involved in something called the Copenhagen Interpretation which basically puts forward the idea that nature doesn’t always follow classical logic.

Hence the quote I came across from Niels:

You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

Guess what?

That quote got ME thinking.

(hey – it worked!)

When have I been merely logical rather than actually thinking something through?

What came to mind was the last time I got a promotion at work.

We’re going back a few years now.  But it was a promotion I approached using nothing but stone cold hard logic and as a result I got well & truly burned.

That logic?

Higher salary, more responsibility, a glitzier job title and a vague sort of sense that things were moving in the right direction.

But if I’d taken the time to actually think (yes, this is allowed!) I would’ve realised I wasn’t snagging a position I was all that interested in, I was doing the “done thing” and I was more focussed on external validation than what I actually wanted for my career and my life.

Of course, it’s different strokes for different folks. 

I know some people won’t give two half-life hoots about doing the “done thing” or the idea that life isn’t always logical.

But I’d wager those people aren’t reading this email anyway.

For everyone else who revels in reflection & contemplation and enjoys thinking about the decisions that shape our lives, you might like to entangle yourself here:

https://waitinglist.followingfulfilment.com

That’s all for today.

 - Tom