Knowing exactly how good or bad things are
I often come across many conversations, where people seem to have varying answers when it comes their understanding of circumstances in which they find themselves.
These range from individual, to community, corporate or even national as well, dare I say, racial constructs.
Going down that wormhole a bit, how many times have you heard people describe Zimbabwe is the worst country in the world, based nothing on nothing except a feeling or political position they take? And yet quite a few places are worse off and wish they had Zimbabwe's drama.
I will come back to this, either later in this written piece or a podcast. Who knows. These are stream of consciousness things.
I digress.
So about understanding where you are. Yes.
A misdiagnosis of how good or bad things are result in a dire consequence. You don't know where you are realistically, and most importantly, no idea what you are fixing.
It reminds me of Gilda talking to a broken Crystal in Ntokozo Shange's For Colored Girls Only. Crystal is mourning after her abusive boyfriend Beau has killed her two beautiful children. Gilda tells her that while Crystal needs to take some of the blame for what happened, that is all she should. That is to say, know what is not your fault.
Why is this important?
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Knowing what is your fault means you know what to fix. If you think everything needs to fixed without diagnosis, you will end up back where you started. You need to be sure of how bad or good a situation is.
This is a continuous exercise, and you will develop various diagnostic tools. These range from friends, to experts and even AI prompt tools like ChatGPT and Gemini. It all depends on where you are.
PS. I think I should do an article on how you can use AI prompt tools to understand where you are.
About Zimbabwe. I know. Yeah. We will do that another day.
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