I recall a time when I backed out of my garage like I’d done countless times before, only to hear an awful crunching noise.
A visitor had parked dead center in my blind spot and, before I knew it, I had raked the whole side of my car with the other vehicle’s rear bumper.
How could I not see something so obvious as a car, and only 10 feet away?
Incredibly, seemingly hidden things can create massive damage if kept from our view.
In this correspondence, I want to introduce a concept that explains why most men go through life without seeing or understanding the part of us that drives so many behaviors. We’ll discover that the truth was there all along, hiding in our blind spot — our subconscious.
In my book, All In, I go into more detail about what Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung describes as our “shadow self,” or the part of our mind where we hide taboo or unwanted thoughts, memories, traumatic past experiences, feelings and desires.
It’s tricky to address something outside of our awareness, but this was part of my journey to empowering freedom — and it can be yours, too!