The Specific Kind of Noticing Ori Does Isn't Available From Reading More, Talking to More People, or Trying Harder
Faced with a pattern they can't quite see, the default response is usually to add more effort at the same activity — read more on the topic, talk to more people about it, try harder to pay attention. All of these add more input to the same closed loop the person is already operating inside, and a closed loop, however much input it receives, has a structural limit on what it can see about itself.
The specific kind of noticing at issue here — recognizing a pattern that's been running across many separate moments a person experienced individually, without ever seeing them stacked together — requires something none of those approaches supply: a vantage point outside the loop, capable of holding the separate moments in view at the same time and noticing what they share.
Reading more adds information but not vantage point. Talking to more people adds perspectives but not a continuous record of this specific person's own recurring pattern. Trying harder adds effort within the same position the person was already looking from — more of the same input, at the same angle, which was never the limiting factor to begin with.
What actually supplies the missing vantage point is structurally different from more of any of these — a system built specifically to hold the continuous record and reflect back what recurs, which is the gap none of the usual advice, however well-intentioned, is positioned to close.
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Momar Lissa Ndiaye ("MLN") is the Founder & CEO of weyoga Inc., a Delaware company. — weyoga.ai · mln@weyoga.ai