Just What is a “Wandering Mind”? (Part 2) – A Paradox of Potential

Riding a Wave…

When conditions are right, we sail strong, getting more done in a shorter time than most. Ideas click. Insights seem obvious, if not simple. In diving deep, the world fades away as the inner critic mercifully loosens its grip.

We are creative.

Feeling that free flow, we may wonder why we cannot always be here. But its conditions are ephemeral, a mysterious muse drifting off far sooner than we’d want. Trying to hold on beyond its natural end creates tension, exhaustion, and a blind...