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TOLERATE AMBIGUITY
Breakthrough ideas are not always the result of a revolutionary Eureka moment. On the contrary, they are often the result of an evolutionary series of approximations or failed experiments.
When Thomas Edison was asked how it felt to fail 800 times before coming up with tungsten as the filament for the light bulb, his answer was a revealing one.
“Fail?” he said. “I didn’t fail once. I learned 800 times what didn’t work.”
Edison had the ability to tolerate ambiguity — to “not know.” Like most breakthrough thinkers, he had the ability to dwell in the grey zone. Confusion was not his enemy.
“Confusion,” explained Henry Miller, “is simply a word we have invented for an order that is not yet understood.”
If you are attempting to birth a breakthrough idea, get comfortable with discomfort. Give up your addiction to having all your ducks in a row — at least in the beginning of your discovery process.
People may think you’re a quack, but so what? Your chances of birthing a breakthrough idea (and result) exponentially increase the more you are able to tolerate ambiguity.
What new idea of yours is bubbling on the brink of breakthrough? In what ways can you stay with it — even if something in you is impatient for a breakthrough?
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