New Ideas Take Time

Person working on a partially built wooden dock over calm water, with planks and tools nearby.

Any time you’re trying something new, something you’ve never done before, there will be a period of growth, and growth rarely comes without a certain level of pain. Like a molting crab, we must shed our former selves in order to grow, but in that space between, we are left soft and vulnerable. We lie low and wait for our shells to harden, while we plot our next move, but we can see the future.