A noisy head can’t hear its own advice. Turn the volume down and the answer usually shows up.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

When you cannot decide, the problem is often volume rather than information. Too many opinions and not enough quiet means the thing you already suspect never gets a chance to be heard. What feels like confusion is frequently just noise sitting on top of an answer.

Stop taking input for a few days and stop reading about it. Walk with the question and nothing else, or write it out longhand once. The answer that shows up in the quiet is usually the one you had before you started asking around.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What do you already know that the noise keeps drowning?

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