“And I realized how often the prison I feel is self-imposed. How often I say yes to things and then regret them. Or obsess over how someone perceived my communication. Or have a daily ritual like writing this blog but somehow feel like I can never play hooky. Or worry so much about what people think of me.”
“When we understand our essence, everything about our lives starts to make sense. And we can stop shaming ourselves for being unmistakable, unique geniuses. Every job we ever had—even the “bad ones”—makes total sense. And we take on new perspectives about our relationships.”
“One of the saddest things in the world is a visionary with blinders on. Because they’ll spend their whole lives believing that they aren’t a visionary. That they aren’t a genius. That they aren’t creative—or, if they are, they can’t believe in their ideas enough to make them work in the world.”
“There’s nothing about me—or any person—that’s inherently broken or bad or wrong. We just haven’t fit into the right contexts. And we don’t know ourselves well enough to know what the right context for us is.”
“Our circumstances don’t dictate what we feel, do, or experience. We always have permission to be ourselves—even in less than ideal circumstances. We always have the one thing that is within reach that makes us feel like ourselves—even if it’s not the ideal just yet.”
“Genius exists in relationship. It’s about the meeting place of two subjectivities, two vantage points. A seer and a seen. A shared experience. A connection.”