Dante’s comfort zone
The May issue of Harvard Business Review published a conversation with the poet David Whyte in which he described the tendency to avoid leaving the 5% of the reality we know rather than explore the other 95% we don’t know.
Quoting Dante he describes the experience of losing your sense of direction but finding something else in the darkness far more precious: “waking in a dark wood where the true way was wholly lost.â€
It’s not our lack of money, talent or education that hold us back. It’s not our circumstances that keep us stuck. It’s our fear. It’s our fear of the unknown that prevents us from leaving the 5% that we are familiar with, rather than experience the temporary discomfort of uncertainty that stands between where we are right now and the other 95% of what we are truly capable of.
Insights, Exploits And Life-Lessons
