Roisin Markham

I remember as a kid being told we are all unique and being amazed that although there are so many humans in the world no two are the same.

Recently I’ve begun dipping in and out of Nilofer Merchants ‘The power of Onlyness, make your wild ideas mighty enough to dent the world’.

It’s been on my reading list for a couple of years and now that I have it I can’t seem to get into it…

I’ve gotten as far as ONLYNESS is your unique lived, learned, loved, wounded, experiences in all aspects of your life that you bring with you to any specific situation. In the context of her book she talks about work and career. I’m only on chapter 3.

Curiously though I was listening to a podcast a while ago and it spoke about a dancer. Paraphrasing the dancer shows up in the moment the purest form of self expression each experience of their life bring them to this physical moment. They may bend with a choreographers direction but the honest and true movement and physical ness comes from them. It was curious to me that the idea of unique self accumulating to the moment came at me from different directions.

Do you every have that experience? Your curiosity seeks out and uncovers knowledge, insights and learning from different sources that reflect the same or similar ideas.

It seems like something is being distilled and requiring time to develop.