Is confusion good or bad?

I keep hearing from a lot of people that they are still in the process of discovering their true cause. I myself have gone through similar cycles at different stages of my life. Lot of people, from whom I sought advice, mentioned that such confusion is non-productive and I need to get more focused to achieve anything meaningful in my life.

Today I wanted to present a contrarian view to this prevalent thought. I agree the necessity of being focused in harnessing all your energies to the immediate task at hand. But then why do we get confused in the first place? 

Here are two (of the many) plausible reasons:

1.    Is it that we wanted to do something and didn't find it as captivating as expected? We want a bigger challenge or more engaging work.

2.       Sometimes we come across a completely new line of work that suddenly becomes more interesting. 

If you response is either of these two, then I believe that such confusion is extremely positive in nature. In the first case, you are challenging the status quo. You are not letting complacency set down in your life. Also you still have you risk appetite intact. In the second case, you are adapting to new insights and opportunities as you are growing. You are offered with a better idea and you are proactively steering yourself into a more promising direction. I certainly believe these are all positive attitudes as they are letting you adapt and experiment. Such adaptation and experimentation is indeed the basis of evolution, then how come it be wrong or non-productive.

Sometimes grass may certainly look greener on the other side. But not adapting will ultimately lead to extinction or an mediocre life in our professional ecosystem. After all, good is the biggest enemy of great.

Mann

Sep 14, 2011.