Is That Really What You Want? How Do You Know? Thoughts from The Century of Self.

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief. — Ecclesiastes 1:18

“Hood Ornament” — Photo by the author.

A while back I saw a question on Quora that intrigued me. Someone asked, “What is the hardest truth?” Several thoughts came to mind, one of them being the awareness of how chained we are by habit, genetic disposition, the formative…