Progress Is The Continuous Destruction Of Identity

You may not have all the answers, but you’re working on it.

Consistency is confusing.

On the one hand, consistency is character. A priceless trait that cuts through life’s clutter when honed to a knife edge.

But taken too far, consistency becomes stagnation. Empty. Unproductive. Useless.

That’s why Emerson said, “consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.”

He meant, as Victor Hugo would go on to agree, that it was mature, even virtuous, to change our opinions, but not necessarily our principles.

It’s called evolution, and some of us are professionals.

Others, not so much.

Evolution is hard. It takes study, experimentation, and an almost daily death of oneself, a yearning for progress, and a becoming.

Evolution is terrifying. It requires sacrifice, an adventurous nature, and the will to keep going when there is no evidence you should.