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Want to know what kind of person you are? Jump off a cliff.
A professor once said something that lingered in my mind: if you want to know the kind of person you are, simply decide you are going to jump off a cliff. How are you going to do it? There are some that will stand at the edge with knees buckling and panic, and never jump. There are some that jump off with nothing but hope, and although they may reach the bottom, they also go splat on the rocks below. Others may be overthinkers, and sit at the edge trying every possible wing/parachute design for slowing down their landing. They’ll think through every single problem, often creating exponentially more of them. They will spend countless hours second guessing themselves and never really commit to jumping off. By the time they decide to jump, they now have the added complexity of aged brittle bones that need to sustain the landing—analysis paralysis.
Then there’s the kind that tries to understand the problem, come up with a viable solution, and if it seems reasonable… jump. You may encounter setbacks mid-fall, like a wing breaking, but you trust yourself to figure it out before you meet a disastrous end in the rocks below.
It has been over a decade since that conversation, but I was reminded of him in trying to create Mustard Seedling. I spent countless hours strategizing, watching YouTube tutorial videos on various subjects, and constantly branching off into yet another thing I needed to learn. I was half a year in and had restarted at least a dozen times, yet was still standing on the edge of that cliff.
All was not in vain though, because I did learn a lot, but the bulk of what I learned was not from where you’d think. It was from reading my bible. It gave me the confidence to decide that I know enough, and I’ll figure out the rest as I go.
So, this first post is my jump. I will take this walk by faith. Thank you for joining me in this journey, and please forgive me ahead of time when mid-decent I end up throwing away my damaged wings and start reaching out for dangling bushes off the side of the cliff.
“For we walk by faith, not by sight.” 2 Corinthians 5:7
Then there’s the kind that tries to understand the problem, come up with a viable solution, and if it seems reasonable… jump. You may encounter setbacks mid-fall, like a wing breaking, but you trust yourself to figure it out before you meet a disastrous end in the rocks below.
It has been over a decade since that conversation, but I was reminded of him in trying to create Mustard Seedling. I spent countless hours strategizing, watching YouTube tutorial videos on various subjects, and constantly branching off into yet another thing I needed to learn. I was half a year in and had restarted at least a dozen times, yet was still standing on the edge of that cliff.
All was not in vain though, because I did learn a lot, but the bulk of what I learned was not from where you’d think. It was from reading my bible. It gave me the confidence to decide that I know enough, and I’ll figure out the rest as I go.
So, this first post is my jump. I will take this walk by faith. Thank you for joining me in this journey, and please forgive me ahead of time when mid-decent I end up throwing away my damaged wings and start reaching out for dangling bushes off the side of the cliff.
“For we walk by faith, not by sight.” 2 Corinthians 5:7
