"Confusion is a high state of being "

The ideal amount of not-knowing is not zero.

To make interesting work, you must be constantly pushing the boundaries, constantly finding your edge. Feeling lost and confused is a good sign, actually. It is an indicator that you are somewhere brand new.

Jacob Collier: “There’s this funny myth that you somehow need to know what you’re doing, but people who know what they’re doing don’t make interesting work.”

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Someone once told me: “Confusion is a very high state of being,” and it baffled me until it didn’t. You cannot know until you know that you do not know. In other words, not knowing precedes knowing.

Confusion is what happens when we have followed the thread all the way down and discovered that reality, that the story we have believed for so long, is not so infallible. It rings hollow, it is empty from the inside out.

It is what happens before we understand the fundamental paradox that underlies everything. It is what happens when you blink, foggy-eyed. As you wake up.