There’s a weird, fundamental mismatch in the things I see every week — often on LinkedIn, but in other places as well.
On the one hand, we’re told that everybody is different, with different dreams and so on. On the other hand we’re expected to be motivated by one particular person’s inspiring story.
But that person is different, with different desires and dreams. Why should I expect that his life has any message for me?
If you push “different” too far, we’re all alone. We have nothing to talk about. Your life and dreams and “lived experience” is something I will never understand, and there’s no point in trying.
If you push “similar” too far, we can’t benefit from the amazing variety of gifts that people bring.
And if you do either of these things while bunching people together into identity groups, you are an enemy of the human race.