Make Room for Your Thoughts

Coaches Need Bandwidth Too

Brian Eno, prolific English musician, producer, artist, and writer, is known for pioneering ambient music. In a recent interview on the New Yorker Radio Hour, he offers the following observation:

"I do think boredom is very important. If you keep getting boredom out of the way by distracting yourself...you lose the possibility of your threshold of interest falling so low that you can notice a tiny thing...if you don't provide input, what happens? If you want things to come up from inside you, all of the accumulated knowledge and information and experience that you have, if you want that to manifest itself, you have to stop trying to stuff more stuff in. At that moment you have to give it space to come up. You can't do both things at once."

This speaks to the paramount importance of allowing cognitive processing to happen. We live in a world and a moment that claims more input, more often, from more sources, is universally better. Each of us can question that claim for ourselves, and the questions that we ask may invite different choices.

You are hereby invited to ask yourself Eno's question, and to discover the results for yourself: "If I don't provide input, what happens?" This can lead to other questions such as:

In what ways do I "stuff more stuff in?"
What effects do my choices have on my cognition, bandwidth, and emotions?
What stuff or sources are useful to me in this moment, and which might not be?
What small change could I make that opens up more space?
How can I act on what comes up from inside?

Wishing you moments of fruitful space this month.

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