It can be reverse thinking, but if one knows how to do something well enough, maybe one can find ways of not doing it- the contra thinking.
I’m not an expert in this area, but I have experienced lostness more times than I would like to confess. The episodes have ranged from slight disorientation resulting in more distance and time in the woods than planned , to server bile producing panic with near death consequences from prolonged disorientation in the raw elements.
There are several underlying themes in the etiology of getting lost, the most paramount is the lost one doesn’t know he/she is lost until-he/she becomes aware(if they do). I suggest even in the state of not knowing you are off course, one is indeed off course in a time and place of lostness, and when one realizes they are lost, feelings come in literally screwing your day.
I have trouble seeing my own blindness to new ways of though, doing, etc., but I really have trouble listening to someone who is fundamentally different from me. I know how I’m supposed to be with others even those contra, but I have walls between how I am and what I imagine I am.
It’s much like getting lost, as soon as I get over my anxiousness and panic, I can hear and for the first time have a chance of getting unstuck. There can be great assets in times of lostness and in facing persons poles apart from our view of the world. Both require not being other or outside focused and staying centered in where and who you are in the moment. It could be that Life presents both as learning opportunities to practice saving your own ass, when faced with the worst of destabilizing conditions.
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