Correcting Lenses

Correcting Lenses

Do you wear contacts or glasses? Many people do. I’ve worn one or the other my entire adult life.

Corrective lenses help you see the world more clearly. They correct and resolve fuzziness, focus issues, and other things that would otherwise give you a less-real picture of the world as it exists.

Do you wear correcting lenses? Correcting lenses are the ones that help you see all the mistakes. The mistakes you make and that others make.

Correcting lenses see the world in right and wrong. They constantly test the world for “correctness” and invalidate anything that doesn’t match your pattern of “right.”

Everyone has correcting lenses. And sometimes, when you’re working in a context where “correct” and “right” are clearly defined and understood by everyone involved, they can be helpful in removing errors and mistakes from what you’re doing.

But most of the time, you likely do not have enough shared understanding with the people around you to be certain that “right” means the same thing to everyone involved.

Which means your correcting lenses invalidate others, and make them “incorrect.” That’s a terrible place to put another human being.

Often, you end up turning your correcting lenses on yourself. And invalidating yourself is really painful.

Try tuning in to when your correcting lenses are on. 

Take them off, and put on corrective lenses instead – the ones that let you see more clearly, without invalidating yourself or others.

You’ll like what you see.

You can do this. I can help.