Come, sit I have a lot to say And a lot to learn I want to know your heart Maybe you can show me mine…
Tag: vulnerability
I’ve never been a confident man.
I’m sure there’s some elaborate formula that would shed light on the hows and whys: this gene, coupled with that circumstance, those parents, that culture, those schools, those books, that trauma, that success, these friends, those choices, those actions, and that value… multiplied by this belief and that evidence, equals this man?
Don’t pretend to be strong when you’re not. Don’t pretend to be tough and resilient when you’re cracking under the pressure. Don’t power through when you are anything but powerful.
The anxiety, worry, and stress does nothing to help your creative flow. It not only closes doors right in front of you, it locks them. In this way, you’re convinced you need to keep madly seeking, searching, struggling and suffering in the “how” of it all, lacking the magic key.
Try surrender.
Whatever you’re developing, building, coding, researching, teaching or designing, if you’re doing it to subvert, antagonize, or undermine the system that is, you’re no better than you’re enemy.