Be not afraid of your knowledge. The only way to know if you got it right, or got it wrong is to not be afraid and speak it, act it.
M: On Curiosity and Venturing Into the Unknown
“Some places remain unknown because no one has ventured forth. Others remain so because no one has ever come back.”
Let yourself venture forth and to places you have never been. Just because no one can tell you how to get there and what you need to do to achieve those ends does not mean they are not of worth.
Some of the most important experiences and adventures we could have are those that we are likely to afraid to embark upon.
“If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.”
“The man who embraces a new paradigm at an early stage must often do so in defiance of the evidence provided by problem-solving. He must, that is, have faith that the new paradigm will succeed with the many large problems that confront it, knowing that the older paradigm has failed with a few.” – Thomas S. Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
2010.01.18 Give 100% To Really Learn
Those who have strong passions, create strong self-destructions. – Tara K. Harper
And it is out of fear of that self-destruction and what that might mean that prevents people from living passionately. Do not fear the future, do not hold the past to be ultimate truth–for the future is not the past, no two people are the same, and with every minute your life is changing.
Live passionately! Live fully! Give one hundred percent, surrender yourself to the world, to life, to love. Only then will you learn anything about yourself.
“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have at happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.” – Murakami
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. – Alexander Graham Bell
It’s a good reminder today to reflect on what I might be holding on to that no longer serves me. The sooner I close these doors, the sooner I can open new ones.