With gusto, we jump into knowing exactly what we want until those newly acquired skills become refined enough to show us how this is exactly what we don’t want. No problem, clean off the canvas and start modeling new stuff.

Learn how to make amazing materials for those new models; wow, they have so much depth and realism. Oh, there’s something else out there that can make them even better? Okay, we’ll just scrap what we’ve done so far and try this new way. Good thing we’re not a year into this.

Uh oh, there might be a problem with the game engine we’ve chosen to work with. Time to start considering the alternatives. Sure, but all roads bring me right back to where we started. Well, then, we can be secure in knowing our decision was a sound one, at least for the next week or two.

This is the dialogue that goes on nearly every day. Certainty when exploring the unknown is amorphous, requiring a kind of flexibility that reminds me of something I was told while on a white water trip through the Grand Canyon, “Indecision is the key to flexibility.”

Today’s decision is the seed for tomorrow’s exciting new way of doing things; that makes way more sense anyway.