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I wholeheartedly agree. All the way down to the lemmings. Your thoughts around the artisan is what reminded me of that time in my life when I felt so very overwhelmed and couldn’t figure why. I had every super deluxe premium DirecTV package one could buy. It had to be 800 channels deep.. I had all the streaming services. I had access to entertainment and anything else from my smartphone. I had a full western lifestyle and I was exhausted everyday and couldn’t figure out why.

When I read Schwartz, I was trying to get to the bottom of things, after I came across decision fatigue as a real thing and why my life was a mess.. Schwartz led me to start editing, but I needed more guidance/direction. Which brought me to The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential...in Business and in Life by Leo Babauta and his website Zen Habits (This is not a commercial for Leo, but I do value his work).

That then led me to look into Zen … tried it out for a bit. Ultimately, Zen wasn’t a bad fit, but I always felt like I had to go to it. When I shifted to Daoism it immediately felt like I was already where I needed to be and it was just a matter of “adjusting the sails” a bit.

Your perspective of the artisan and their focus on their craft, caused me to think/remember how much we miss by not having less in our lives. Your thoughts on marketing and its destructive nature are not lost on me either. The ideas and value systems that get pushed all too often, is ultimately damaging to western society. The “keeping up with the Joneses” type pressure. The young and flawless models can hammer self image .. on and on. A Taoist perspective is almost the antithesis of current western culture.

I don’t know that I would’ve ever looked at that parable differently without a fresh perspective.