Growth, Change & Reinvention

Outgrowing the habits and stories that once protected you, and what leaving them costs.

theme creativity 1,104

Twelve of the 1,104, with the question each one ends on. Open one to read the explanation that sits between them.

“The habit you inherit may contain a problem you never had.”

“Know what you can do, then continue improving what you cannot.”

“You don’t have to stay who you were to stay loyal to where you came from.”

“Stop waiting for the new you to feel natural. Natural is just repetition you forgot about.”

“Improve one variable you personally control.”

“Some lessons wait for age because experience provides the vocabulary.”

“You can appreciate who you were without inviting them to control who you become.”

“The first three months of any instrument sound terrible. Your neighbors will live. Keep playing.”

“The first time you supervise friends at work, some will test you. Fair beats cool.”

“Becoming an adult includes seeing your parents as unfinished people too.”

“The person you imagine becoming has never had to experience your ordinary fatigue.”

“The skills you retire from using for pay can still bring pleasure when nobody sets the deadline.”