One Apple A Day #821 - seeker
This morning, my BetheChange card reminds me that "being creative is nothing more than being intensely who you are", and it brings me back to the fundamentals "who" questions I wrote about in my last apple: "who am I?" and "who do I want to be?"
In my experience, to find the answer to those questions through sheer logic is an impossible task. Combining introspection, we can get further in this quest, but the risk is to get lost in rumination or to tell ourselves lies only to feel good.
This card reminds me that a huge help in my quest to answer the "who" questions is to add "empirical observation".
When and where do I feel more creative and passionate?
Simon Sinek says that "passion is an output, not an input". Passion is something we experience when we do something meaningful.
So, that's it. I just have to pay attention and recognise when I am more creative and passionate. That means I am on the line that goes from who I am to who I want to be, and I should be able to see the answers I seek.
While I'm writing this, a small voice inside my head is asking "if it's so simple, how comes you are still struggling with both questions?"
Maybe because it is not so simple.
There is no definitive answer. And to make things even more complicated, the quest itself changes us and so it changes the answers.
As usual, it's messy.
But I love it.
So, who knows, maybe the quest itself is the answer to who I am and who I want to be.