I like this next blog post about the Landmark Forum because it points out to how much we think we already know, and how limiting that can be. The woman blogs about how she’d heard about the Landmark Forum for a long time, but she dismissed it as some cultish thing that personal development junkies did. When she actually ended up doing the Landmark Forum, she saw some things that she’d never seen before that made a huge difference in her business.
I think this points out our human need to fit something new into something we already recognize – human beings tend to be pattern recognition junkies. So if I mention something like the Landmark Forum to someone, they will instantly categorize it under something they already know, even if they haven’t a clue what it’s about. Whether they think it’s a cult, a new age hippie thing, a corporate white collar seminar, or even a wonderful opportunity for personal growth, they will seek it to put it into some sort of box that their mind can feel comfortable with. Our minds really don’t like the idea of not knowing what something is.
