Sometimes we need to intensely focus on something or someone:

‘Other distracting features fall away when you squint, and it helps you determine what gives the object its objectiveness.’*

Sometimes, though, we need to take a big look, with eyes wide open, seeing the edges of fields and domains and people and where these intersect – where new things can happen:

‘People at the intersection, the, can pursue more ideas in search of the right ones.’**

Perhaps looking intently and closely at one thing for too long can be called a comfort zone.

Michael Heppell claims one of the characteristics of brilliant people is, they leave their comfort zone.  Perhaps, though, comfort is an illusion, being more about what we have to work hard not to see?  (Try it: look at something a few feet away, then squint hard at it and see your field of vision narrow, and notice how much effort this takes.)

James McQuivey suggests we need comfort, but also connection and variety and uniqueness.^  The larger world and truth overtakes and envelops us anyway, eventually: think about how you live your life now to ten years ago or twenty years ago.  So, why not be more intentional about this?

‘Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or thought.’^^

(*From Sunni Brown’s The Doodle Revolution.)
(**From Frans Johannson’s The Medici Effect.)
(^From James McQuivey’s Digital Disruption.)
(^^From Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth.)