How To Make Your Head Explode In Both Complexity and Rigor

I used to frequent a personal develoment forum where a guy posted pretending to be a famous European rocker posting hilarious comments to personal development threads like “I read self-analysis by the poster and it cause me head explosion in both complexity and rigor! ”

None of the moderators banned him because he provided a breath of fresh air from all the overly serious threads that personal development forums tend to encourage.

The image of head explosions pretty much stuck with me - even dreaming about it at times - and I remember it everytime I get into long, winding self-analysis. Anytime I find myself acting out theoretical events, I imagine a head explosion as a metaphor for an unnecessary excursion into events that can, may, and could happen but no one really knows.

It’s a great reminder how we can sometimes, during the course of our personal development activities, get too locked up in our heads and away from what really matters - how are the things we engage in enriching our lives and the lives of those around us?

I’ll end this now as further thoughts suggest the cartoony image of my head blowing up like a New year firecracker.