Most people don't know their truths

Most people don't tell you their truths because I don't think they actually know their truths.

This is gonna sound a bit woo, but, bare with me.

I think we have become so polished, desperate to be palatable and present what we think is the right answer that we hold back on saying actually what we believe.

So I've started doing things a bit differently. I now build into projects going for walks where you talk free flow, I have a record option in Frankie so you don't have to type and can brain dump, i don't send questions out before hand so I can catch half baked thoughts, I record voice notes to myself where I ramble on about different things.

This is one of them.

I explore topics and see how it goes, I journal not just for pleasure or personal stuff but if I'm stuck on a meaty work problem I get the book and just write and I write and I write and I write some more and I just let my thoughts flow.

Sometimes, it goes way off script sometimes you get the point that you go…. that is what I've been searching for all along.

It is in these streams of consciousness, that are messy and tangled and contradictory that the truths lie and the magic happens. The trouble is, that we are in a world that favours and rewards precision, productivity and optimisation that we collectively do not allow this stage to ever happen. When it does it is met with the feeling that was wasted time.

I use a phrase 'write drunk, edit sober' and I say the word 'use' loosely as it's been a while since I have embodied it (physically and metaphorically), but I think if we all did, everything would be a much more interesting space.