One parcel of my identity is a food-growing gardener. I read @BrianRoemmele blog earlier this week and thought to share the news… Plants bred for yield, speed, and size are delivering up to 50% less of several key nutrients than they did a generation ago. There is more output, yet less nourishment. The effort looks the same on the surface. While, these high yield crops grew larger and faster - they stopped building the root that actually struggles and searches for its nourishment needs. I was immediately struck by the parallel between plants’ roots that have to struggle, do contain higher nutritional value and our human struggles that seem to be a gift (in a way) to help us grow into a quality being. 👀 So, here’s a question in a question — ❔How often are we productive yet not nourished? Busy yet not fed? Moving through the days doing real, meaningful things - and arriving somehow hollow? 🌱 The Enneagram points to something quiet here. Each type has its own way of optimizing for output over depth. Doing over receiving. Producing over resting inside what was made. The plant that never has to struggle stops building the root that searches. I think we do too. Comfort over uncertainty. For instance, I can move through an entire day doing meaningful things and still arrive at the end of it strangely empty. Not because nothing happened. Because I moved through it instead of into it. The root has to go somewhere my schedule doesn't reach. I would love your thoughts on this! 🌱 Source Citation: thegrocer.co.uk/news/crops-h… Research from Hollow Harvest, Deep Science Ventures, as reported by The Grocer, October 2026 - supported by Davis et al., Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2004, and the Broadbalk wheat archive at Rothamsted Research.