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This One Weird Geological Fact Helps Me When Life Gets Tough
The simplest and most useful analogy I know
When I was studying Geography at school, I was fascinated by the bizarre and awesome processes at work in, on and around our planet.
Walk any coastline equipped with even a basic knowledge of geology and you start to understand that what you are walking through is a 3D historical document of hundreds of millions of years of our planet’s history.
I never expected physical geography to give me an insight that has helped me keep my mind, body, spirit, career and marriage on track.
But it did, and here’s how it works — welcome to Bedrock Theory…
Look Beneath The Surface
Put very simply, the bedrock is the layer of very hard rock at the bottom of the many layers that make up the ground we walk on.
Look at the diagram below, which I sourced from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry.
They were using it to — very helpfully — to explain how the local government in the US State of Maine access…
