Field note – October 12th 2011
Hapiness Hypothesis.
I took away three main powerful concepts: the rider and the elephant; the dimmension of ‘divinity’; and the importance of group and individual selection in human evolution. The divinity dimmension may just touch on something I have been struggling with for a long time. I do feel that a dimmension had been missing from my attempts to understand people. Most of us simply let their inner elephants stampede most of the time. On rare occasions that elephant is a beautiful, inspiring beast. But the rarest case of all is someone with a level of self-awareness and vision. Someone with an additional axis and an ability to percieve the shades of gray — a recognition of the fact that there is very little in this world that is certain or pure.
