Deconstructing The Mind. Pasadena 2019
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There is a story about a young girl watching her mom make pot roast. In the middle of the process the mom would cut the pot roast in half and cooks it. The young girl asks her mom: “why do you cut the pot roast in half?” Her mom says “Because my mom did that all the time.” One day the young girl visits the grandma and she is cooking pot roast. Again, the grandma cuts the pot roast in half and cooks it. The young girl asks the same question and the grandma replies “because my mother always did it that way.”
A few days later, the young girl is at her great grandmother’s house and asks the same thing again. The great grandmother says: “Well, that’s because when I was young, we didn’t have a big enough pan so I had to cut the pot roast so it would fit”
Sometimes we just take and believe things on it’s face value and we don’t ask questions and consider them as the best way of doing things. Sometimes, it is good to deconstruct our habits, and in this matter, the way we learn.