I once read that doing “extreme” sports doesn’t actually confer any qualities to other parts of our lives (e.g. bungee-jumping won’t make you feel more confident on dates).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
But, you know, driving is making me believe that’s not true: Learning to do this dreaded thing””even starting to have fun<\/em> at it””is a real confidence-booster. What else might I be able to do? I’ll be driving that car around like I’ve got a bloody dragon’s heid in the boot!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I still have a lot to learn, but that nightmare of suddenly appearing in the driver’s seat of a car on the motorway… it doesn’t apply anymore (even though I haven’t dealt with those lessons yet).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Perhaps the oracle at Delphi was wrong. Perhaps knowing ourselves just chains us to a past description””a story””of who we’ve been, and blinds us to our potential.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Un-know thyself!<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I once read that doing “extreme” sports doesn’t actually confer any qualities to other parts of our lives (e.g. bungee-jumping won’t make you feel more confident on dates). But, you know, driving is making me believe that’s not true: Learning to do this dreaded thing””even starting to have fun at it””is a real confidence-booster. What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}