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Becoming perceptive - by Henrik Karlsson

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This is the second part of an essay series that began with “Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process.” There is also a third part. It can be read on its own.

This is the second part of an essay series that began with “Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process.” It can be read on its own. Detail from The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan Van Eyck, 1434 I went out to see what I could see . . . —Annie Dillard, “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” When Abraham Maslow did clinical studies of people who self-actualized, one thing that set them apart from others was, he wrote, that they lived “more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs, and stereotypes that most people…

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