Daniel Coyle

If anybody listening takes a piece of paper and a pen and starts sketching out the shape of their life, what direction did you go?

Where did it take you?

They're not drawing straight lines.

They're drawing these squiggles with a ton of dead ends and then a turn and then a movement and then a breakthrough and then another failure.

And there are these squiggly paths and yellow doors are the kind of inflection points on that path where we can say, hey, that's interesting.

I don't know if it's good or bad.

Let me try it out.

Let me live into it, live into the question.

And we can't think our way through them.

We can't predict our way through them or logic our way through them.

You have to live your way through them to really, really inhabit them and explore them.

And that feels good when you develop the athletic move to say, I'm going to push through that and all.

The fact that it's a little painful, a little uncertain is just the price of good things.

It's not a downside that it's a little painful.

It should be a little painful, like a lot of stuff is, and that's okay.

You're not going to grow without some form of stressing who you are now to lead toward that growth.

That's how growth works.

That's how the garden is grown, I guess you might say.

I think it means that you're always

tapping into some core, some depth.