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I've had this quote taped to my computer monitor for the past six months, and never has it had more impact on my thinking than these past three weeks.*
I just completed the final project for my fifth class--officially halfway through my master's program.
This class almost killed me. As a general rule, I require 8-9 hours of sleep each night just to stay nice. Five times over the last week, I was awake to see the clock turn to 1 am--and up by 6:30. Countless pages of research and notes. More than 100 hours of work. I was exhausted and exhilarated and . . . by the end . . . ready to be done with the stupid paper.
Fifty pages. I turned in fifty pages for that project.
Funny thing is, that paper is just the tip of the iceberg.
I am working on something even bigger, beyond the scope of grad school and academia and theory. It's so far out of my comfort zone that every time I think about it, I get that pit-in-my-stomach feeling. Like the quote says, I have to be prepared to be wrong, and that's scary. Do you ever feel this way?
*Sir Ken Robinson is one of the leading proponents for restoring creativity to our schools. He presented a fantastic talk at TED conference "Do Schools Kill Creativity," where I first heard this quote. If you have twenty minutes to spare, I highly recommend watching it.
Where am I in this whole mess?
I just completed the final project for my fifth class--officially halfway through my master's program.
This class almost killed me. As a general rule, I require 8-9 hours of sleep each night just to stay nice. Five times over the last week, I was awake to see the clock turn to 1 am--and up by 6:30. Countless pages of research and notes. More than 100 hours of work. I was exhausted and exhilarated and . . . by the end . . . ready to be done with the stupid paper.
Fifty pages. I turned in fifty pages for that project.
Funny thing is, that paper is just the tip of the iceberg.
I am working on something even bigger, beyond the scope of grad school and academia and theory. It's so far out of my comfort zone that every time I think about it, I get that pit-in-my-stomach feeling. Like the quote says, I have to be prepared to be wrong, and that's scary. Do you ever feel this way?
*Sir Ken Robinson is one of the leading proponents for restoring creativity to our schools. He presented a fantastic talk at TED conference "Do Schools Kill Creativity," where I first heard this quote. If you have twenty minutes to spare, I highly recommend watching it.
Ohhhh, I want to hear more about this even bigger project.
ReplyDeleteAre we talking book here? I think you would write a great one.
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love that quote. i'm with sue--definitely need to write a book:)
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