Where in your life or your work are you currently pursuing comfort, when what is called for is a little discomfort? … Choose uncomfortable enlargement over comfortable diminishment.*
Oliver Burkeman

I profoundly believe that we don’t grow into creativity; we grow out of it.**
Sir Ken Robinson

An uncomfortable place for us to begin is to
listen, to notice, to pay attention;
We want to move on, but,
Perhaps, just maybe,
This will be an opportunity
to grow and gain more substance towards a
weightier, more meaningful life,
Where we shall sharpen our superpowers
and make a difference:
this older and more experienced self knows
that the painful things are often the things that
ultimately give substance and meaning to life.^

*Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks;
**Ken Robinson’s Out of Our Minds;
^Nick Cave’s Red Hand Files blog: #176.