Nothing Makes Everything Scary

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“Nothing” is scary.

“Nothing” is an absence of stimuli.

We see the “Nothing” space between points as something to remove.

We are told that: Where “Nothing” resides, only death can live

Nothing has become akin to “death” or “dead time”.

This is not true.

Nothing, Boredom, & Growth

The space between activities is essential to our growth.

But rather than embracing it, we try to speed through the “Nothing” periods, calling it by its more common name “Boredom".

There is a hidden yet irreproducible beauty in boredom.

Boredom is not the death of activity.

Boredom is a transitory period between activities.

It gives meaning to the experiences on its bookends.

The pauses that Boredom provides expose and form purpose.

Pauses transform:

• Grape juice to wine (OK, this one is a Gross oversimplification, I know lol)

• A cacophony of noise into melodious music (Try and play all the notes of your favorite song simultaneously.)

• Poor Speakers, rushing intelligibly in their speeches into Great Orators whose pregnant pauses grasp the imagination of their audience and entice them to listen more and more deeply.

The “Nothing”, the pause, and the boredom creates the space to reconcile the past, incorporate its lessons, and prepare for the future.

“Nothing”, Boredom, and pauses are needed because, without them, we end up doing without living and living without learning.

The takeaway from today’s email is to learn to be OK with doing nothing in the present.

It can help you do all your future something’s better.