Relativism has a seductive force behind it. It offers you short-term relief for your problems – internally, relationally, and professionally. And the worst part is that it works. For a while anyway.
But relativist thinking also comes with a brutal, long-term cost:
It separates you from reality!
This separation is subtle. Most don’t realize it until the consequences can’t be ignored – and that takes a while. And perhaps the hardest thing to wrap your head around is that it becomes more alluring the smarter you are.
In fact, this loss of calibration with reality uses your own intelligence against you!
And it all starts from a simple assumption: Everyone has their own truth.
The good news is that it’s possible to free yourself from this slow and inevitable fracture from reality. But it won’t be easy.

A tragedy occurs when you reach a certain level of achievement: The mind starts to reorder itself for destruction instead of growth.
Worst part?
This happens so subtly that it goes completely unnoticed… until it’s too late. As achievements accumulate, decision quality erodes. Feedback arrives later and later, so mistakes don’t get corrected. They get built into systems and culture. By the time the error becomes clear, reversing it is costly or impossible.
That’s the bad news.
The good news?

There’s a pattern that’s so ingrained in the human psyche that Ancient Daoism noticed it long before psychology had language for cognition. It’s a pattern that sneaks up on almost every high achiever who tastes enough success. And it subtly erodes your judgement and strangles your emotional intelligence without your realizing.
Worst part?
The more intelligent you are, the faster your mind crumbles your judgement.
And while this pattern doesn’t usually cause immediate failure, it can lead to something far worse down the road.
Here’s the good news: