Keeping an open mind without boggling it is maturity.
A “tunnel vision” is easier to navigate without boggling our minds.
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling." ~ Thomas Sowell.
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Building on the quote and the post “The Unconstrained Vision,” Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, posted, I, too, think we have an adulting issue and need to “Validate the Adulting Process & CPV to Mitigate the Risk of Adulteration!” (see: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/validate-adulting-process-cpv-mitigate-risk-ajaz-hussain-ph-d-/ ).
To feel is to experience, and it makes us human, yet some of us learn from experience; variably, most do not. We live in an experience economy (https://hbr.org/1998/07/welcome-to-the-experience-economy ), and our experiences are commoditized for profit.
Even the most educated and trained among us, the “doctors,” are prone to doctoring, i.e., changing the content or appearance to deceive; or falsify, as is now amply evident. This tendency was noted even by the Institute of Medicine in 2009 when it declared the failure of the continuing education system and called for continuous professional development (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK219797/).
Back then, the so-called healthcare system was the 3rd leading cause of death (https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us). I wonder what it is now.
How can we simultaneously personalize our minds, machines, and medicines to develop continuously? I am sharing a slide deck of thoughts to discuss meaning-making and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) in the context of the post-truth world, which I collected to populate two recent invited lectures: https://www.slideshare.net/a2zpharmsci/an-updating-perspective-on-bad-i-in-march-madness-2023pdf.
Thanks, Ajaz.