Insight Shorts
The map in our patterns

The patterns of history repeat themselves
- The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
- The Six-Day War of 1967
- The oil crisis, the three-day week and power blackouts of 1973-74
- A time of personal trauma as a member of HM Forces in 1978
- My car crash and messed-up relationships of the early Eighties
- Black Monday in 1987
- The oil shock, the recession and a personal financial crisis in the early ’90s
- Establishing my own business in the mid-’90s
- The deaths of my parents whilst starting a family in the late ’90s
- The global financial crisis of 2008
- 9/11
- The Pandemic of the 2020s
- The death this decade of close friends and, worse, their children
The patterns of life are a story
Discover the patterns for a way forward
- Read someone else’s story and look for the patterns (Glennon Doyle’s Love Warrior is great for this, as are the myths of the ancient world)
- Write down some stories of times in your life when things didn’t go well and look for the patterns.
- Imagine future hard times and predict the pattern and your journey through the pattern.
- Be prepared to ask for and offer help.
Attributions
Photo by Lesly Juarez on Unsplash
References
Jiwa, Bernadette. Story Driven: You don’t need to compete when you know who you are (p. 84). Perceptive Press. Kindle Edition.
Glennon Doyle Melton (2017). Love Warrior. Macmillan USA.
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