04 Of Survival and Discovery

Your squiggle sense can enhance your ability to navigate two fundamental currents of thought. First, those dealing with how to survive the daily material difficulties of your life, and second, how to make discoveries about yourself, your life and anything you’re interested in. These two currents of thought are complementary—they’re mutual, dynamically linked, and can’t be meaningfully separated. To be able to study and make discoveries about your life’s interests and pursuits, you must somehow navigate and negotiate the logistics of daily survival. The discoveries you make inspire and motivate you, compelling you to follow new paths of exploration, which alter the logistics of your daily survival. It goes back and forth, round and round, like the proverbial serpent swallowing its tail.