{"id":558,"date":"2021-09-06T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T13:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/?p=558"},"modified":"2021-09-06T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T13:29:48","slug":"a-musing-on-letting-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/558\/a-musing-on-letting-go\/","title":{"rendered":"A Musing on Letting Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One way of looking at my past 2 years, is to see it as an <strong>on-going experiment in letting go<\/strong>. In some ways, letting go has always been easy \u2013 I am notorious (with those who know about it) for ditching diaries, emails and paperwork when they have served their purpose. I am uncomfortable with clutter whether physical or mental. Similarly, holding on to any \u2018intellectual property\u2019 has always been anathema \u2013 perhaps because I believe we stand on the shoulders of giants and any insights or new ideas come through us, not from us. So we really have no right to a sense of ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, having let go of a leadership role in two projects that have been very important over many years has given me pause for thought.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/partnershipbrokers.org\">https:\/\/partnershipbrokers.org\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trigonos.org\">https:\/\/trigonos.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So many people (including those that I thought knew me well) have said that <strong>I must find it hard to let go<\/strong> (they assume I feel possessive about projects I have created and carried for so many years) or that I must feel sad about stepping back and \/ or moving away. But I really don\u2019t feel either of these things at all. I actually feel relieved to be shedding responsibility, combined with a kind of objective curiosity about the future of the work in which I have invested time and effort.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, I try (rather late in life!) to <strong>exercise the discipline of simply waiting to see what comes next<\/strong> \u2013 whether reigniting interests from the distant past or welcoming something entirely unexpected from the future. Patience never having been my strongest virtue (understatement) this is a new experience and whilst on some days I find it challenging, on most days I find it completely intriguing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way of looking at my past 2 years, is to see it as an on-going experiment in letting go. In some ways, letting go has always been easy \u2013 I am notorious (with those who know about it) for ditching diaries, emails and paperwork when they have served their purpose. I am uncomfortable with clutter whether physical or mental. Similarly, holding on to any \u2018intellectual property\u2019 has always been anathema \u2013 perhaps because I believe we stand on the &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/558\/a-musing-on-letting-go\/\">Read the Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}