Fully Edged

When you’re really good at your craft, you “have an edge”.

When you’ve achieved mastery and all your tools are at the edge of your fingers.

When you’re well-steeped in a problem, you understand all of the edge cases.

When you help someone make a decision to buy, you help them step over the edge separating the before and the after, away from the “from” and toward the “to”.

When you’re proposing to your new client a set of three new bold, edgy options for working with you.

When you know enough about a topic that you’ve found the edge of all current knowledge.

When you work in the hot industries, you work on the “bleeding edge”.

When you’re making bets and you’re risking going over the edge.

When you cultivate a certain austerity so you can be more free, you’re purposefully moving an edge.

When you reform a culture, you work as both an insider and an outsider, operating right on that edge.

Or when you’re holding two opposing ideas in your mind at the same time and you’ve conquered tolerating the sharpness of that edge.

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It’s okay to be away from the edge. There’s nothing wrong with just starting out. No problem being on the journey. It’s fine being away from danger. Taking a break becomes necessary, so you can get back refreshed.

Paradoxically, the edge, if you’re comfortable being close to it, can be the best place for your craft.