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Pieter Bruegel and the Foolishness of Man: A Simple Lesson on Humility and Human Folly
We are foolish now, we have been foolish in the past and we will be foolish again in the future — and that’s okay
A Very Bridgable Gap
What stands between us and the possibility of success and fulfillment?
Far too often the answer to this question lies in the unhelpful picture we paint in our minds of what those at the top of society really look like. Today, we call this notion, imposter syndrome — its name coming from the ubiquitous ‘imposter-like’ feeling one experiences when facing new hurdles or encountering new experiences. What’s more, the problem lies in our failure to recognise how equally flawed our successful counterparts must necessarily be.
“We feel like imposters not because we are uniquely flawed, but because we can’t imagine how equally flawed the elite must necessarily also be underneath their polished surfaces“— Alain de Botton
Cars and Capes
The French renaissance philosopher, Michel de Montaigne once famously claimed that “No man…
