Step Up

“Don’t step on yourself to step over yourself. What you are and where you are, that’s enough for whatever is next. Paradoxically, you have to try harder to try less hard, to take it easier in the quest to work at your best level.”

I wrote those words on Halloween 2020. They could have served as an epigraph to my chapter W = Words, about the potential harms and benefits of self talk. Instead, I used some beautiful words from Edward De Bono for a somewhat different take:

“In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.”

By better let’s say instead more intentional, the quality you desire...whatever that may be.