The SEC just sued an entrepreneur I admired for $112 million for an alleged Ponzi scheme.
A âthought leaderâ whose ideas I find toxic and divisive just said something I canât help but agree with (which pains me to admit).
Our tendency to pedestalize some people and demonize others flattens everyone into caricatures rather than the complex, terrible, beautiful mess of contradiction and brilliance we are.
Wisdom invites us to keep our eyes open when someone we admire fails and our minds open when someone we dislike taps into truth.
Easier said than done, but itâs best to zoom away from the labels, tribes, and categories, and align with the light wherever it may be found. Extract whatâs useful. Discard whatâs not.
This keeps us from blind allegiance and close-mindedness. (It also keeps us from losing hope in humanity.)
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