The cage becomes hardest to escape when you finally convince yourself the bars are decoration.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

The most difficult confinement is the one you have stopped recognizing as confinement, where the limits have been reinterpreted as taste, or realism, or simply how things are. Nothing prevents you from leaving except that you no longer see anything to leave.

Ask what you have decided is impossible for you and check when you last actually tested it. Some of those conclusions are years old and were formed under different conditions. Test one this month rather than reasoning about it.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which limitation have you started describing as a personal preference?

MORE IN PARADOX, METAPHOR & FOOD FOR THOUGHT

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