To Balance Comfort and Experimentation
Polishing the rocks we have in our arsenal, and breaking off new chunks to work on.
What is it that we do without thinking, that we literally can’t even explain the steps of execution to? And what do we know we should be exploring but aren’t?
Our “go-tos” are never polished enough, so we continue that work. BUT we also need more looks and relooks to test; adding, subtracting and modifying as we do.
Should we start our rolls with our new challenges, and finish class with our go-tos? Or flip that, start with our comfort and amp up to the new material to finish class? Or sandwich the new material between bookends of comfort? Or full-on classes, weeks or a season preferring one or the other?
Regardless of strategy, what do we know we should be working more? Have we rabbitholed far from home without connection? Have we stayed under the covers of our comfort zone? Obsessed too much with one idea or paying too little attention to others?
On and off the mats, we need to balance the comfort of reliable fallbacks that we worked so hard to obtain, and the courage to do the work of new challenges that keep us growing.