It’s funny.
I’ve described creativity before as a process of connecting, empowering, and inspiring whereby it feels like being an explorer, navigator, and storyteller of a new world(view) you are adventuring towards.
But the last inspiring stage isn’t so much storytelling as much as it is storyliving. In effect, think of the empowering stage as navigating and finding the right knowledge. But just knowing something externally from the outside isn’t enough. You have to fully experience it immersively from the inside to grasp the wisdom of it.
This is the inspiring stage of storyliving. You have to fully embody what you know, step into it, not just know it.
This is why it’s inspiring.
It’s not because you’re inspiring others.
It’s because you’re inspiring yourself.
You’re doing and being the very thing you both are excited about but also scared shitless about.
In effect, you are embodying the very thing I’ve described many times.
The adventure of your life.
In other words, you can’t have an adventure without leaving safety behind and stepping into uncertainty.
And I think what all these fears I’m playing with are telling me is that what I fear the most is letting go of my old safe sense of self and stepping into a larger sense of Self.
Yet that is the very “adventure of life” that I need to embody and live.
Yet paradoxically, what’s interesting in this all is that even though I haven’t made that step yet, I truly know what it feels like to experience this hesitation and reservation of going through this process.
It’s strange. Sometimes I wonder if I’m taking so long to go through this transformation because it’s enabling me to better understand it and articulate it for others, when it comes time for me to help them with their own transformational journey and adventure.