Thinking

I don’t struggle with letting things go. What slows me down is choosing — because choosing means killing other futures. The moment I commit to one path, ten others disappear. Not emotionally. Logically. And that’s where the friction comes from. Most people call this indecision. It isn’t. What Loss Aversion Explains — and What It Misses Behavioural economics tells us that people hate losing more than they enjoy winning. Losing £100 hurts roughly twice as much as gaining £100 feels good. ...

Do you feel it? That faint pulse at the edge of your mind. There it goes. Again. A thought slips past. Another follows. A million variations, arriving and vanishing with each beat of life. Some call this feeling a spark — a glowing particle cast off from the fire of imagination. But where does it come from? Out of nothing? Perhaps “nothing” is not empty at all. It is shaped by laws — some known, others hidden — waiting to reveal themselves when we stumble into them by chance, or dare to attempt what has never been tried before. They play with us like children in a cosmic game of hide-and-seek. The answers are already here, right in front of us, but only when we shift our gaze does one suddenly leap into view. ...