The Value of Confusion

We weren’t trained to admit we don’t know. Most of us were taught to sound certain and confident, to state our opinions as if it were true. We haven’t been rewarded for being confused. Or for asking more questions rather than giving quick answers.

But guess what? We can’t be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for the new. Of course it’s scary to give up what we know, but the abyss is where newness lives. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.