The Work Is The Way: The First Truth

josh-berthume:

When I started working in media, I noticed early on that I was able to see things my clients could not: aspects of their products or services they should accentuate, potential problems with their brand identities, market position insights. As a younger man, I thought this was because I was the smartest guy in the room. Now I understand that this is because it is impossible to be objective about your own stuff… or anything else, for that matter.

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.

CS Lewis