How to use Lists to Get to Know Yourself
Who here has never made a list? You? How about you?
I thought so. We've all made lists. Watch a child sometime. You'll see the roots of list making behavior as the child sorts their crayons, stacks blocks by color, or lines up their stuffed animals. Its the form we use to categorize and order our world. Lists are an innate part of our mental life. They've been around in written form for millenia. I talked about the types of lists we keep and their uses in The Lure of Lists. Read more