There are several major risks in learning.

One is that we might become someone else.

Another is that we might realize the way we did things before wasn't the ideal way.

It strikes me that many people who could get their hands on the ball during a rugby game won't, but then tell everyone later that they tried. The story about it, the words about it—these are easier than the actual it.

Talk is easier than “it”.

So where does that leave us?

With more agency than we usually admit?

With more already decided about ourselves than we hoped?

I'd like to be the master of my fate, and I might need to become a little bit of someone else in the process.

(Thanks, SG!)