Don't Let Someone Else's Story Become Your Experience

Also: Meet People for Yourself

“Someone else's experience of a person is their experience. It doesn't have to become yours.”

The Idea

Someone tells you what a person is like. You haven't met them yet, and already there's a shape in your mind — a warning, a distance, a verdict.

Their experience was real for them. It was also shaped by history, timing, mood, and everything you weren't there for.

Meet people for yourself before deciding who they are.

Don’t take our word for it.

Try noticing this.

Signature reflection

“How many opinions do you have about people you've never actually experienced for yourself?”

Then reflect

“How many opinions do you have about people you've never actually experienced for yourself?”

Kept on this device. No account, nothing sent anywhere.