Feeling Dumb, Having Fun

I’m being a bit goofy with this, but I realized today that I’m currently in my favorite quadrant of The Work 2x2 (TM) that I made up just now. Let’s call this quadrant “Feeling Dumb, Having Fun.”

Along the x-axis it goes—left to right—from “feeling clever” to “feeling dumb,” and along the y-axis—bottom to top—from “lacking fun” to “having fun.” I’m in the top-right quadrant, of course.

In the top-left (Feeling Clever, Having Fun) it might seem nice and easy, but I don’t feel like I’m learning enough and lose interest. In the bottom-right (Feeling Dumb, Lacking Fun), I’m learning… but I don’t know if I want to learn about that. In the bottom-left (Feeling Clever, Lacking Fun), I’m neither learning enough or having any fun.

Whenever there’s way too little fun or I’m not being challenged enough, I need to change things. When I’m learning a bunch and having fun doing it, though? My goodness, yes—let me stay a while.