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Clues take time to connect!

By Bamboo In The Wind

People and books should be read repeatedly before discounting as uninteresting. It takes time to understand the ideas they represent. Time and again, we witness that circumstantial memory takes over how we experience anything.

That is true for anything we do. How we come across people and interpret ideas from books in our first pass? Different days and circumstances leading up to the second pass can change how we find them. 

The more passes we make, the better understanding of what we are involved in we get. Each pass provides us clues of more that we did not understand earlier.

Same with our work. We may not figure it all out in the first go. We need to keep at it. Make more passes. Look at it from various possibilities and perspectives. We have to give feedback, take inputs, give more chances, change compositions, test them under varying conditions and see if we understand what we are doing better than before.

When we are consistent with knowing.people, developing thoughts or doing anything that appears seemingly trivial it will evolve into intense interaction or creation. When we make an effort to understand more we will learn how to use it and where. 

If we persevere in growing our understanding of everything we do, we will find more profound meaning and value in our work. And that is at the core of satisfaction - everywhere.

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