"this privileging of what has always been known over what has been learned" !!! Sometimes, I feel like what I'm learning in life is what has always been known. And what has always been known is the fact the life is full of the unknowable. Does that make sense!? Recently, I started a list of unanswerable questions just to get my brain to relax before bed. It actually helped sitting with how much I don't know, won't know, and can't know about life. Why bother trying to know the unknowable?
Your mind is a beautiful place. Thank you for bringing these thoughts on intuition and path-finding. I love hearing about what young Marissa would think of present Marissa.
Something I just came across the other day that I feel like you would like if you haven't read it (about those good old days of the internet when we should've listened to Kevin and bought Bitcoin while drunk in Pete's backyard),
Maybe the question is - what makes up intuition? because to me : "allowing myself to be open to chance and change, by grappling with hard questions to which there was no straightforward solution, by surrounding myself with people different from me and much wiser and seeking their input" is a form of listening to yourself too, hearing and feeling yourself not knowing. I often think of intuition as that "true inner voice" (also: what is "true") that I just need to clear the way for to hear - but maybe its also - like Mel said - more of a surrender to an unknown.
soooo true — accepting the not-knowing can also be listening to yourself; it's all part of the same soup. maybe the dichotomy i'm feeling is: is the answer inside me (intuition, inner voice, etc.) or outside me (chance, change, asking my friends for advice)? but of course that's a false dichotomy. (and likely the result of my tendency to never feel like an authority on anything, even my own life...) you are such a model to me of balancing these perspectives; i'm so grateful for it <3
"this privileging of what has always been known over what has been learned" !!! Sometimes, I feel like what I'm learning in life is what has always been known. And what has always been known is the fact the life is full of the unknowable. Does that make sense!? Recently, I started a list of unanswerable questions just to get my brain to relax before bed. It actually helped sitting with how much I don't know, won't know, and can't know about life. Why bother trying to know the unknowable?
Your mind is a beautiful place. Thank you for bringing these thoughts on intuition and path-finding. I love hearing about what young Marissa would think of present Marissa.
being relaxed by unanswerable questions — i love this! your mind is incredible. thank you for reading and thinking through it with me <3
Love this so much <3
Something I just came across the other day that I feel like you would like if you haven't read it (about those good old days of the internet when we should've listened to Kevin and bought Bitcoin while drunk in Pete's backyard),
https://lindseyadler.substack.com/p/ten-years-in-a-crumbling-industry?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fvampire%2520weekend&utm_medium=reader2
Maybe the question is - what makes up intuition? because to me : "allowing myself to be open to chance and change, by grappling with hard questions to which there was no straightforward solution, by surrounding myself with people different from me and much wiser and seeking their input" is a form of listening to yourself too, hearing and feeling yourself not knowing. I often think of intuition as that "true inner voice" (also: what is "true") that I just need to clear the way for to hear - but maybe its also - like Mel said - more of a surrender to an unknown.
soooo true — accepting the not-knowing can also be listening to yourself; it's all part of the same soup. maybe the dichotomy i'm feeling is: is the answer inside me (intuition, inner voice, etc.) or outside me (chance, change, asking my friends for advice)? but of course that's a false dichotomy. (and likely the result of my tendency to never feel like an authority on anything, even my own life...) you are such a model to me of balancing these perspectives; i'm so grateful for it <3