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Unpacking Adult Mindsets — Willing to Be Disturbed

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What Jamie wrote

In order to progress we have to be willing to enter uncomfortable areas and be willing to "disturb" ourselves.

We can’t be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for the new. Of course it’s scary to give up what we know, but the abyss is where newness lives. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing. If we can move through the fear and enter the abyss, we are rewarded greatly. We rediscover we’re creative.

When was the last time you had your own positions disturbed and looked into the abyss?