Transitions

Transitions, done well, are both terrifying and thrilling. They present you with visions of dazzling new futures and dig up all your deepest insecurities. There’s a tendency to rush through them — to fill the empty space with something, anything to avoid the confusion and in-betweenness of an ending without a clear new beginning. But these periods are important and necessary. William Bridges calls this the neutral zone.

As with the maker movement ten years ago, I’m not alone in this experimental phase. COVID has thrown the world into a fallow period. No one seems to have a clear idea what this new world will look like. There is no choice but to build back. And I’m excited to be there in the trenches with everyone, especially the pragmatic idealists who believe that we can do better.

Thrilling indeed.

Source: This is an Experiment. Prototyping a new life after a decade… | by David Lang | Nov, 2020 | Medium

See Bridges Transition Model | William Bridges Associates