Minimalists are able to insulate themselves from cult-based mindsets
Stanford University is a beautiful place to be whether it is fine, cold, or stormy [see photo].
Walk off campus down University Avenue and you can delight in the normal fare available in Palo Alto. However. If it is diversity of thought, habits, and beliefs you crave then you are in the wrong place in the world. Here you are visiting a mindset cult.
I use to love going to Stanford University and then on into the township of Palo Alto. But the group think, or one think, that prevails in these spaces has become too much for me to bear.
The last time I was at Stanford University I made a vocal note of the mindset cult on display while on a tour of a program on design. The tour guide was shocked. She denied that what I said was true. She then proceed to act like a fully fledge member of this mindset cult for the remainder of the tour.
As I stood browsing the student work as posted on the walls of this space I was sought out by many of the other tour members. Each of them commended me for my comments. Each of them was shocked by the fact that my gentle criticism of this program was received with a forceful denial by our tour guide.
If you work inside a mindset cult [and many people do] then it is your responsibility to expose it, change it, or leave it behind in your rear-view mirror.
Richard.
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