I just had a fascinating insight, only to realize that it wasn't an insight at all.
And I'm wondering how much this is happening to all of us.
So I was walking the dog, I had a great night's sleep. My mind felt really clear and open, and all of a sudden, I thought I had this insight about her upcoming schedule.
I realized that we could release one of the things that we wanted in Japan without releasing the other one at the same time, and that would buy us a little breathing room and organize better.
So I recorded a little message, sent it off to Yoriko, and then I had a second insight.
Oh, wait a minute, then we could do this other thing and change that.
And again, I sent the message off. Then I was walking, and I realized, wait a minute, that doesn't quite make sense either.
There's a third little part. So I recorded one more little message and sent it off.
I thought, wow, I'm having all these great insights today.
And then the real insight hit me.
Oh, what's happening now is that I'm actually finally understanding what Hisami has been telling me for the last couple of days or weeks about the schedule.
This isn't a new insight I'm having at all.
What's happening here is because I had a good night's sleep and my brain was able to rest and sort of move out all the noise and busyness that's always present from work.
When I woke up and I was walking Lucas, suddenly I was able to understand what she had told me before.
So this clarity that I had felt like it was coming from within, like, oh, I have these new ideas, and I'm really excited about them. I'm going to share them, and people will be excited, too, that this new idea makes things easier.
That's the kind of perspective I had internally.
But what was really happening is that everybody had probably noticed that I'm not quite catching it.
I'm not catching the easy road that she saw and laid out for us.
I have this idea of how it should be, and I'm not fully listening.
So I'm still trying to steer down the road of the way I think things need to be or have to be.
It wasn't until my brain relaxed that I was able to see what's right in front of me.
There's this easier road, not because I dreamed it up and had an amazing insight, but because finally, I'm able to see what everybody else has been saying.
I'm able to listen to those words and those messages because my own preconceived notions aren't in the way anymore.
And this, this was the real insight.
This was the insight that I'm so happy I got a good night's sleep, one.
But also that I'm starting to notice, oh, every good idea that comes into my head isn't my own good idea.
Sometimes it's me finally listening to the smart people around me and all of their good ideas.
And I think this is really important for all of us to take to heart because this probably feels a little bit invalidating for the people that I'm not listening to.
When later I come up with the same idea and I kind of think it's my own.
So it's probably a good thing we could all ask ourselves: oh, is this beautiful, wonderful idea just me catching up to the beautiful, wonderful ideas of others?
