Watching a inspirational documentary on Bjarke Ingels, this young architect who is, at the age of 41, a wunderkind, I was struck by something he said: that when naïveté matures., it gives way to another kind of confidence.
And I was taken by that: first in the obviousness of naïveté fostering confidence, or in fact being a synonym for it. Of course, when you are naive you are confident. That’s because you believe: in innocence, in possibility, in ‘why not’ as opposed to why, in failure as being unimportant and in why pigs can fly.
It’s the open eyed idea of the world that children bring to the party of unicorns and dragons and evil wizards.
It’s the other kind of confidence however that piqued me: that confidence born from practice and effort, the knowing that in any universe pi is an constant recurring fraction, or that somethings will work and somethings won’t.
This is the confidence of How.
I wonder whether these two paradigms of confidence can ever co exist in the same time and space continuum.
Innocence lost and knowledge gained: Ah, for the garden of Eden.
So It Got Me Thinking 