Read standing in the shadow of giants (ideolalia.com)

The narrative fallacy is that past events prefigure the future. It is especially common in biographies, where the subject’s early life is reduced down to a collection of events that suggest that their future path was obvious, if you only knew how to look. It ignores all the other people who did almost the same thing, and ended up somewhere else entirely.

ᔥ Raphael Luckom in Early December Check-in (12/17/2020 12:49:40)