Learning how to use my new gifts
It is with some amusement I find that I have turned to the internet to learn how to use two of my gifts this year. Whilst I know how to use near enough any point and shoot camera you care the throw my way. Notebooks neither are the most complicated item to use.
However I have found this year the need to use the internet to "tell" me how to best utilise my new items.
Here I found a writing template for my new Moleskine notebook. The blank pages actually make be feel nervous. I believe this offer quite the frightening insight into my psyche. Almost as if starting with nothing unnerves me. I can see this sometimes when I approach a new project, whereas some revel in the blank canvas waiting to be filled, I am unsure and uncertain of how to make that first stroke. Sometimes a crippling fear, similar to that feeling in exams whereby you think the moment you write something it can't be undone - it is indelible linked to you and will forever be used to show you incompetent.
Maybe this stems from this quote by Lincoln: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt"
However I have found this year the need to use the internet to "tell" me how to best utilise my new items.
Here I found a writing template for my new Moleskine notebook. The blank pages actually make be feel nervous. I believe this offer quite the frightening insight into my psyche. Almost as if starting with nothing unnerves me. I can see this sometimes when I approach a new project, whereas some revel in the blank canvas waiting to be filled, I am unsure and uncertain of how to make that first stroke. Sometimes a crippling fear, similar to that feeling in exams whereby you think the moment you write something it can't be undone - it is indelible linked to you and will forever be used to show you incompetent.
Maybe this stems from this quote by Lincoln: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt"
posted by M at 5:53 PM
1 Comments:
My defining quote has always been Edmund Burke who said that he would rather
"run the risk of falling into faults in a course which leads us to act with effect and energy, than to loiter out our days without blame, and without use."
And if you are phased by blank pages, why not break out from the tyranny of the line and try mindmapping?
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