This is brilliant.
Although the source where I got it (Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project)
cited it from Freud, they seem like an equivalent to the three fates from Greek
and Roman mythology. What I like most
about the three dimensions is that they fit what we know about human behavior
pretty well. Much of our behavior
emerges from a combination of our genes and past experiences and is to a large
extent “inevitable.” We also have “fateful
tendencies” based on the differences in our cognitive abilities, emotional
profiles, and personal preferences. And
of course, there is always the random “accidents” that emerge from our free
will.
“The names of the three spinners (of your life’s web)
have been interpreted significantly…Lachesis, the name of the second, seems to
mean ‘the accidental within the decrees of destiny’ while Atopos means ‘the
inevitable’ and for Clotho ‘the fateful tendencies each one of us brings into
the world.”
