I love this quote. It has me rethinking our beliefs about who we are. I think you have to be willing to look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself “am I good enough?” and the answer is most certainly no and that’s ok.. The right answer is yes.
I don’t know about you, but I am a bit terrified of asking myself if I am good enough, and I’m afraid of what I might end up saying. I don’t want to turn someone who is genuinely good down because they aren’t good enough. I would rather be myself and ask myself if I am good enough, not because I’m scared of the consequences.
The reason I say that is because I see so many people who have no self awareness, but are still so full of confidence in their own abilities because they dont need to think for themselves. Its so easy to take someone at their word and assume they know what they are doing and are just so confident in their own skills. You would not believe how bad people can be when they dont know how to do a thing.
A lot of people can be so confident about their own abilities but then when someone asks them to do something, they will give up. How many times have you heard, “I don’t know how to do that” or “I have no idea how to do that” or “I really don’t know how to do that” over and over again? That person is not a person who knows what they are doing.
If you are in charge of a job, any job, you know how it goes. You can see how the person doing the job knows more than you, and you can see how the person doing the job is not a person who is confident in their own abilities. It is the exact opposite of self-awareness.
It turns out that this whole job thing is a lot like learning to play a musical instrument. You start by being able to do one thing and then you try to figure out what the thing is. After trying different things you figure out the instrument is what you should be doing, and then you try to play the instrument yourself. Then you finally figure out what the instrument is and you actually get it.
In the case of the piano, you can do one thing wrong and still get it. In this case we can’t figure out what our job is and we don’t know if the job is on Earth or on Deathloop. We don’t know if we should be playing an instrument, but we know we have to figure out what our job is. It’s like the whole thing is a series of self-assessment tests.
The “weazel news” is a series of daily messages from other beings that are trying to communicate with you. We are, after all, the ones we send to each other, to others, and to our own brain. We are the ones that send the messages, we are the ones who will determine what they mean, and we are the ones who will decide if the messages are worth receiving or not.
Weazel is a strange little game about having conversations with other beings. There is a point in time when you receive a message, which you then have to read to yourself. You then must decide if you want to continue the interaction by answering the message or not. It’s a game about communication, but also something that is meant to be an exercise in self-awareness.
You’ll want to take that self-awareness into your own game.