Every long-term creative endeavor requires you to cycle into "The Thrash." That window where everything you thought you knew gets thrown into the wind, everything certain becomes uncertain and the way you contribute to your art, business, career and life are all up for grabs. It's not about floundering or wallowing, it's about owning the fact that you've been going sideways for a while and it's time to step into that space that sets you up for the next big evolutionary step. Even if it scares the daylights out of you. The other side of The Thrash is possibility, growth and power. But, all too often, you can't see that until you're through it. How you handle this cyclic creative rite of passage determines whether you get to the next level, what it looks like and how much ease you experience along the way. That's what we're talking about in the third episode in our August Summer Jam Series. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Here's your host, Jonathan Fields.
So part of growing and evolving is intentionally testing the boundaries of an experience that's perceived as outwardly successful, but thats begun to feel inwardly complacent.
I think, as doing that means taking a risk both in ego and ease.
It means going from being on top of your game, or at least the perception of it, to potentially stumbling, falling down, not knowing which way is up.
The thing is, if you never feel that way, theres a good chance that youre going sideways, and sideways kills.
We all need to rattle our own cages on a pretty regular basis.
The beginning of nearly every move, from a period of sustained success to evolutionary quest, is defined by waves of uncertainty, of questioning everything you know.
Often realizing what you thought until recently was relative.
Mastery was really ignorance plus one, maybe, and the first rung on a ladder, the end of which lies beyond sight.
Now that awakening massively screws with you.
It lays you bare.
It forces you to start exploring the foundation of everything you believe in and everywhere youve sought to go and grow.
On the surface, its not a good feeling, at least while youre in it.
But funny enough, thats kind of where I am right now.
Its not that I dont have fantastic projects going on or brilliant family and friends that support me.
I do.
On those fronts I am blessed.
But my heart and my gut are tugging me in a lot of uncharted territory these days into a more aggressive evolutionary stage.
And evolution is by definition unsettling.