Friday, November 21, 2025
I used to be a good mapmaker. My future was secure because I had “taken charge” of it – mapped it out. But Magellan-type of thinking, this time-honored idea of taking hold of your future, doesn’t work. A true legend, a diagram explaining the symbols of a schematic, is drawn out by those who venture out first, then put the adventure into a retrospective schematic.
Legends launch before symbolic pathways are drawn. They step into the abyss. They go where the river goes without knowing where it’s going. They follow the landscape, not knowing what’s “out there.” They’re mapmakers. Legends.
When you reinvent yourself, you’ll understand. Pioneers move into the field without navigational tools that show what’s ahead. They creep up on success and abundance because they have no fear about forward momentum despite having no clue to “what’s coming up.”
To be a true legend, go where everyone else is afraid to go – into the darkness of isolation, aloneness, solitude, and silence. No map. No phone. No distraction. “Launching into” yourself is the scariest, mapless direction imaginable. But that’s the direction of Truth – into aloneness, awash from “taking charge” of your so-called future.
Allowing the path to form under your feet isn’t something for everyone. Building your plane as you fall is scary to those who need to see details before they start. But the frontier is you. The field of potential is wide – but you. Who launches into the greatest enterprise? Those who are willing to go yonder, further. Those who are willing to do what the rest of the world can’t – nothing. Sit silently, alone – in the wilderness of the soul, then, the pathway illumines in real time. The pathless future is true legend-making. Go where the river goes and see where it’s goes.
The landscape in the wilderness of the soul – that’s where True legends are born.