Forward: A Little Background
The idea of this post is to introduce Relativity and Reaction (R&R) — the first in a series of connected reflections I’ll be sharing over the coming weeks.
During my career as a chemical engineer, I first attended a Kepner-Tregoe seminar. I found what I learned especially useful. Later, while working in Germany between 1995 and the early 2000s, my employer sent me on a course called “How to Give Feedback Back” — aimed at colleagues, customers, and subcontractors.
The ideas planted in that seminar stayed with me. Over the years they helped me frame what was going on around me in my world. By framing “issues,” I could better understand reality — or at least gain a less distorted view of it.
In 2000, I suffered a mental breakdown. It took until about 2013 before I could truly enjoy life again. My recovery had two anchors:
- Pairing with a therapist who clicked with me — someone I could be completely open with.
- Building on the core concept of the “How to Give Feedback Back” seminar.
So, in this part of the blog, I’d like to take you on a journey of discovery that ChatGPT and I have been working on over the last months. One of the insights grew much bigger than I expected — I’ll let you decide how significant it is.
📖 Series Roadmap
- Forward: A Little Background
- Introduction: Action, Reaction, and the Human Paradox (16.09.2025)
- Looking Back in Time: The Development of the Human Brain (23.09.2025)
- Abstract Senses: Enhancing the way we see the world outside (30.09.2025)
- Bias as a Concept & Climbing the Stairs: Pattern Recognition & Everyday Tasks (07.10.2025)
- Abstract Feelings and Abstract Senses (14.10.2025)
- Motivation (04.11.2025)
- The Social Knowledge Base (11.11.2025)
- Potential (18.11.2025)
- The Subliminal Way We Go Through Life (26.11.2025)
- Taking Responsibility (02.12.2025)
- Fishing for Complements (22.12.2025)
- Peter and Fermi (22.12.2025)
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