Tuesday, July 23, 2019

You are not behind.

Compare yourself to yourself yesterday, not to younger people who aren't you. Everyone progresses at a different rate, so don't let anyone else make you feel behind. You probably don't know exactly where you're going, so feeling behind doesn't help. Instead, start planning experiments. As Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote a century ago, "All life is an experiment."

-- David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

The Color Inside by James Turrell. Photo by Sara Belknap.