The subjective has its place.

I've started reading Carol Sanford's No More Gold Stars. While I'm only at the beginning, here are some reflections:

• Our society has grown to rely on external means of knowing ourselves and our experiences, often trusting experts instead of our own insights.
• There are multiple modalities of knowledge -- subjective and intuitive experiences are valid and valuable among those modalities.
• Behaviorist psychology has played a huge role in the obsessive extraction of subjective experience from psychology. Driven by a desire to make psychology a hard science akin to physics or biology, it has often rejected the subject’s personal experience, favoring only external observations.
• Isn't it curious that we've prioritized external assessments over the ancient Socratic wisdom of "Know Thyself"?

So far, the most intriguing call to action is to think for ourselves. Almost an obvious reminder, even a borderline platitude, but it's led me to reflect on how I engage with information. I love reading books, absorbing and integrating new information, and sharing interesting perspectives from authors. But what about my own perspectives?

Beyond simply sharing what I learn, there's power in reshaping information through my unique viewpoint. Our subjective insight isn’t something to be dismissed; it's a crucial part of our contributions and creativity.