You Can't Do Everything - And That's Fine

Have you ever found yourself in a deep talk? “What’s the point of life?” “Where do we all come from?” “Who created the creator?” These conversations feel very meaningful. Yet they always finish on the same confusing note. It seems like however hard we try, we will never be able to understand everything. Maybe the human brain is too low level to understand the Big Band or Dark Matter This feels right… maybe the human brain is too low level to understand big concepts like the Big Bang or dark matter. But if everyone thought like this, the world would suck. Big time. The limits of reason: Humans have limits. When we think about the deep questions of life, they just become more obvious. Like “What happened before the Big Bang.” In those moments of truth, it’s tempting to say that we don’t know sh*t. And it’s true. Humans don’t know sh*t compared to all we could know. But when we say that, we imply reason is useless. That because of its limits, it can’t...