The numbness I felt was the result of continuously choosing to ride the gondola in the direction of someone else’s definition of success, moving further and further from my own intuition of a life well lived. When we feel internal turmoil, it’s a signal from our body to rethink our assumptions. While it’s natural to turn to everyone else — anyone... See more
the sum total of all of a person’s nodal points could be some kind of proxy for a personal identity. At the very least, it’s an indication of an individual perspective. Since writing this essay, I’ve thought a lot about this kind of personal intuition towards things: the radar that any person has that leads them to different points in their life.
Intuitive freedom is allowing yourself to move with your emotions rather than against them. And emotional resonance can come from very unexpected places if you allow your internal compass to guide you. Maybe, just maybe, you don’t have to fight the feeling all the time.
If Apple was a democracy (aka customers don’t know what they want. or greatness requires a certain degree of dictatorship)
go deep enough w trusting your gut & heart, they’ll tell you when it’s time to use your intellect
go far enough w trusting your intellect, it’ll tell you it only works at peak capacity when you deepen into your gut & heart
the worst option is to not go far enough with either
This got me thinking that, ultimately, it's the totality of those “nodal points” that indicate one's own unique perspective. It doesn't matter if you specifically sought out the nodal point or not, it’s the recognition that counts. When you encounter a piece of life-changing information (no matter how large the change part is), you are... See more
I was thinking about all the time spent browsing with no real aim, and how even as a 12 year old, there was some small intuitive sense of the things I was drawn to.