"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." - Shunryu Suzuki.

We worship the sentence: “I know.”

“I know what I’m making.”

“I know what it means.”

“I know exactly where this is going.”

But real art never comes from knowing.

It comes from not-knowing.

From sitting down with no map, no promise, no agenda and letting something bigger than your plans speak through your hands.

Your hands know things your head will spend years trying to understand.

Your body holds a kind of wisdom that doesn't speak in words or logic...it speaks in movement, in rhythm, in the way your fingers find their way without thinking.

This is why dancers close their eyes. Why sculptors work in the dark. Why writers talk about their hands moving faster than their thoughts.

Because the body doesn't second-guess.

It just knows, in a way that bypasses everything you believe "should" happen.

When you let your body lead, something ancient takes over. Something that existed before you learned to doubt yourself. Before you learned that art was supposed to look a certain way.

Your head is full of other people's rules. But your hands still remember how to play.

But trusting the body means releasing the mind...and that's where the fear begins.

That terrifies people.

Because not-knowing feels like failure.

Like you’re unprepared.

Like you’re about to embarrass yourself.

But hear me out…

Not-knowing is the only honest position to create from. Because we do not actually “know”.

You don’t know what wants to come through you until you get out of the way and let it.

The moment you decide you “know” you slam the door shut on discovery.

So instead…embrace the wobble.

Welcome the uncertainty.

Make the thing you don’t understand yet.

Follow the thread that makes absolutely no sense to your rational mind.

Because sense-making is the job of our conscious mind…and our conscious mind is a terrible artist.

Your best work doesn’t come from the part of you that wants control.

It comes from the part of you willing to surrender. To listen. To be surprised.

So step into the unknown.

That’s where the breakthroughs live.

That’s where the magic hides.

That’s where the real you begins.

Stay creative,

Way Walker