Scorched Earth: Mental Models #3

<p>What happens when winning stops being enough—and making the other side lose becomes the new objective?</p><p>Scorched earth is a strategy of destroying something valuable rather than allowing the enemy to have it. But we do versions of this in our own lives: in competition, ambition, revenge, identity, and even the futures we deliberately make impossible to return to.</p><p>Episode 121 explores why destruction can feel like power, why getting even can feel like getting something back, and the unsettling similarity between destruction and freedom.</p><p><br /></p>