Stumped.
Whether you’re writing, or shooting, or designing, or trying to find a better way to clean furniture, being stumped happens. Not only does it happen, it’s necessary. The act of becoming stumped. The feeling of “this is it, there is nothing else,” usually means: don’t stop.
Because what lies just behind “stumped?”
Awesome, that’s what.
What happened right before the iPhone? Stumped.
Before the car? Stumped.
Before we walked on the moon? Stumped.
Before we find the answer we first have to fight with stumped. We have to wrestle with lostness.
Then what? We rest. We take a step back. We ask for help. We keep making stuff and think and read and grow. We have new experiences and travel and we come back new.
All these things wake up our brains. They make us feel alive because it’s not that you don’t know where to go. It’s that you’re in the wilderness… There is no way to go.
All these things wake up our brains. They make us feel alive because it’s not that you don’t know where to go. It’s that you’re in the wilderness… There is no way to go.
Happy Stump Day!
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