Working Through Intellectual Loss
When effort, skill & execution don’t bring the results you thought they should
“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.” ― Gabor Maté
Loss, grief and recovery are often spoken of in recent times. The accuracy of more instruction and prompting to look beyond death as the only type of loss worth grieving has been paramount to the healing and reparation of souls over the past few years. In my observation, the experience of loss happens across a myriad of lifestyles, a variety of locations, and most certainly, in the world of work. We are growing in our collective knowledge that an adult’s feelings of loss when a parent of theirs’ remarries, in situations warranting loss of income, and even in successful weight loss journeys, people can identify their grief. Individually, changes in emotions and the dependency on certain types of coping mechanisms begin to shift. In light of recent events occurring in my nook of the world, I want to acknowledge what happens when creatives, solo-preneurs and multi-hyphenates experience intellectual loss.
…but we also can find ourselves “taking an L” in micro-doses.
For clarification, I am not using the phrase intellectual loss to describe when someone plagiarizes your…