When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking…because he is obsessed with his goal…in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.*
Herman Hesse
For Blake and Swedenborg, the imagination was a faculty which could be exercised and strengthened, and which ultimately became a path to the land of vision.**
John Higgs
How big a gap is there
between the stuff you love
and want to do,
And the things
that take up your time?
If the gap is substantial,
You may want to stop focusing
and start wandering,
Noticing what you notice,
And why you’re noticing it–
There’s a time for both:
When you’re doing the stuff you love,
You don’t want to be wandering,
And when you’re not,
You don’t want to be focusing–
One is more measurable
than the other–
This can be why the gap appears,^
But we’re here to see you turn the ordinary
into the extraordinary.
*James Clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter: On thinking like a scientist, how to stand out from the crowd, and what wisdom looks like;
**John Higgs’ William Blake Vs The World
^Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s Ness Labs newsletter: Ness Letters: Motivation Drift.
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