One Apple A Day #953 - I don't undersand and it's ok
I love to learn new things and to understand how something work. I'm always excited when I can infer a model to explain something.
I've always been quite good at this. It's a strength that helped me immensely in my professional career and in my personal life.
However, like every strength, over time, it also became a weak point.
Life is meant to be lived, not understood.
Many times, my need to understand and explain what happens held me back from fully experiencing something.
I lost count of the times I got stuck trying to figure out my way forward through the sheer power of my cognitive intelligence.
"I need to know and understand before I can move forward."
That was what I kept telling me. I still do sometimes.
And almost every time, the way forward manifested the moment I gave up understanding, and I decided to just live.
This is still one of my biggest challenges.
To fully live something even if I can't understand it.