I've created lots of rules for adventuring for myself over the years. Try a new coffee shop a day. Taste test all the burger joints in a new town. Ways to turn the overwhelm of being in a whole new place with no anchors into a million little games.
The beauty of gamification is it takes all the pressure off. There is no need to have "the most amazing experience."
I'm trying to figure out how to bring the same sense of adventure, where getting lost always leads to the most unexpected discoveries - to my creative projects, where I still put so much pressure on myself to know into the future how everything will turn out. Where I'm fighting the engrained desire to be perfect, to deliver what I think others want, to know what it will all mean in the end.
Which, ironically, is the opposite of creativity. Those pressures are one way we stifle our own creative impulses, because they are always a launch into the unknown. A surrender to the unseen. An act of faith.
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