N=1 is the ultimate truth.
Large population level studies provide a decent starting point of what ‘should’ work assuming you’re an average representation of the population. This is useful if you have no previous data on what works for you
If you do have previous data on what works for you, you would have to be some kind of idiot to ignore that & instead go with what works the best for the average population member.
E.g. assume you get a major disease that you’ve never had before. Science says on a population level, treatment A is superior to treatment B so you start with treatment A, but you don’t respond as the average subject in the study did. Do you stick with treatment A, & go down with the ship, because “science says” it is the superior choice? Of course not, you try option B!
Your individual response to an intervention should always be placed above the average population member’s response to an intervention.
Too few academics understand this.
@Alan_Couzens
This applies to our emotional restoration and well-being, too. I’ll add that right now in our culture, if someone is depressed or anxious, they are likely to recommend medical / pharmaceutical interventions if you go to those who practice that. When… “How do you move your body each and every day?” is what – if we looked at humanity over eons – is a more useful exploration…
Indeed, I would say that if we recognize our uniqueness, when we choose interventions or approaches that feel like they “work for the masses” we’re not actually optimized.
Meaning, I do tapping differently than others. I do journaling different from others. I do dance different from what most people consider “going out dancing.”
Doesn’t mean there are not commonalities. We seldom are so divergent from all other humans that we don’t have any intersections on any spectrums, of course.
When we recognize “I’m #1!” it means, to my heart, that N=1, meaning what works for me is not a “population study of N=1000000” it is Me, as Me, interacting with all the different dimensions or me, surviving (hopefully) and from there exploring Thriving.
Love to you. Yes, You Are #1!
Rick
