I was brought up in the 60s when The Prisoner was running on TV, and Patrick McGoohan’s character was trying to escape the island where he was being held prisoner, but he kept getting captured by those crazy bubbles.

Reality is, we’re each living in some kind of Bubble-world – most bubbles are complete ecosystems in which we can exist. We complain about and love the Bubble at one and the same time. It may be our work or relationships or what we’re willing to think about or what we’re willing to attempt. We can think THIS is all there is, and we swallow the warning the Bubble feeds us, that we’ll perish beyond what we know and what we do, and our circle of friends or accomplices.

Rarely is this the case. As our knowing, our loving, and our doing increases, we will become creators of our best art, we’ll make our greatest contributions.

We probably have to have several turning points to move us beyond the Bubble. As I thought about this, some of my turning points have included realising the things I was becoming curious about and intrigued by needed me to leave behind the familiar and comfortable, and journey into a world of new people, new knowing, and new experiences.

‘To be willing to do new things you don’t think you’ll like requires you to prefer the unknown. Not just to tolerate it, but to prefer it.’*

(*From Seth Godin’s Graceful.)