It’s interesting how simultaneously humbling and empowering it can be to realize that people you know assume that you can achieve something about which you yourself are still uncertain.
Asides
Problem Solving
bq. A foundation principle of creative thinking & problem solving is this: _unless we are able to hold two contradictory positions simultaneously, solutions will escape us_.
— “Robert Fripp”:http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?artist=&show=&member=3&entry=18743
Awareness
bq. Awareness is a more powerful tool than effort.
— Hannah Byrum
Reality
bq. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
— Philip K. Dick (unverified)