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What is actually going on - With Love, Mel

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To make interesting work, you must be constantly pushing the boundaries, constantly finding your edge. Feeling lost and confused is a good sign, actually. It is an indicator that you are somewhere brand new. Jacob Collier: “There’s this funny myth that you somehow need to know what you’re doing, but people who know what they’re doing don’t make interesting work.” I’ve been doing a lot of consciousness work, lately. And I notice that, when I let it, life gets a whole lot weirder, a whole lot bigger, and a whole lot aliver. These days I seem to swing wildly between wanting to shrink back into safety and resist this new paradigm, and boldly stepping into what unfolds as I shed the identities that have buttressed my ego. Very often, I am awash with disorientation. David Whyte: “How do you know you’re on the right path? Because it disappears” Someone once said: “Confusion is a very high state of being,” and it baffled me until it didn’t. You cannot know until you know that you do not know.

The ideal amount of not-knowing is not zero. To make interesting work, you must be constantly pushing the boundaries, constantly finding your edge. Feeling lost and confused is a good sign, actually. It is an indicator that you are somewhere brand new. Jacob Collier: “There’s this funny myth that you somehow need to know what you’re doing, but people who know what they’re doing don’t make interesting work.” I’ve been doing a lot of consciousness work, lately. And I notice that, when I let it, life gets a whole lot weirder, a whole lot bigger, and a whole lot aliver. These days I seem to…

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