topo.jpgJohan HolmbergThe Prob­ab­il­ist has a very inter­est­ing way of look­ing at one’s life­path. He describes a way in which we can <a href=“http://www.theprobabilist.com/topography-of-self-growth/ target=“_blank”>envision our self-improvement as a topo­graphic map, or as he pos­its a topo­graphy of exist­ence. His blog “links prob­ab­il­ity cal­cu­lus with per­sonal devel­op­ment,” and seems to do much more at times. The concept of see­ing one’s life­path from topo­graphic per­spect­ive imme­di­ately sug­gests that if you can adopt this per­spect­ive, you can be in a pos­i­tion to appre­ci­ate numer­ous pos­sible paths and tra­ject­or­ies rather than remain­ing focused and pos­sibly trapped on a single lin­ear route-based one. His example of envi­sion­ing one­self on a hill or plat­eau defined by cur­rent diet­ary or income-generating assump­tions, but able to scan adja­cent or even dis­tant hills with dif­fer­ing defin­i­tions is quite apt. I now have a cer­tain men­tal pic­ture of myself on this vast schem­atic terrain…I won­der how you see your world after read­ing his thought-provoking art­icle.