the creative individual’s ego has to be strong-willed to be persistent and has to be able to handle the anxiety associated with unknowing-with the quantum jump into the new. p. 228 goswami

so it’s the tangled-hierarchical encounter of the classical and quantum modalities of the mind that lets us leap frog to new creative spaces.  well i can’t say i’ve ever considered my ego to be very well formed, but i do consider one of my few strengths to be patience with the unknown…i believe i have a talent for not jumping…to conclusions, easy solutions, etc.  this could just be a comfortable familiarity with the practice of torturing oneself, but i’d like to think it could be viewed instead as a skill, if one wanted…see my notes on the story of b