We’re fascinated by patterns and irritated by differences, but it’s the differences we need.

“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.”
— Benoît Mandelbrot, mathematician

Fractals

Fractals are formally defined relationships that use some kind of measure or metric. The essence of fractals is self-similarity at different scales. Psychology doesn’t have scales but it does have relationships. The fractal nature of your personality consists of all the things you think are true, and all the habits you repeat…

Resonance

Resonance is a term from physics and engineering, but you can think of it musically. It means to act in collaboration and to enhance and enlarge. Your personality is a resonance between past associations, actions in the present, and plans for the future. A good dream creates a resonance between ideas, memories, and associations with an invigorating and enduring result. Love is a resonance between positive things that bond people together enhancing and solidifying their relationship…

So Much Noise

We Love Stories

Fractals

Resonance

Coming Back to Fractals

Exceptions to the Pattern

Coming Back to Resonance

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