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Substantive progress!

By Bamboo In The Wind

Often things we see, experience to learn about resonate with us. They do because we feel a connection with them. There is something inexplicable at first that looks relevant to us. We either feel happiness and excitement or get a sense of fulfillment. But we need to understand the reason for it.

The reason we feel that way is because there is because we comprehend everything through a lens of our biases. The prior experience provides us the foundation of likes and dislikes. It gives us a reason to expect things to align with preferences we have built from experiences over the period.

When we encounter a pattern of experience that matches our preference for what we have learned to expect, it places us in a comfort zone of knowing. We feel safe and balanced that new experience has ascertained our prior biases.

When new experiences break that pattern, we are surprised. For, our horizon has just expanded. Our prior biases were shattered. The exposure to new uncertain territory is disturbing at times.

But this is where new perspective builds. New learning and new connection develop. New experiences come from exceptional new creative work, with new, bold interactions being instantiated.

Substantive progress happens at the edge. Rich and meaningful experiences begin just past it!

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