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Liminality and taking or waiting on opportunities
Liminality is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rites when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete.
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This week, as I wrote yesterday in “Spring is Sprung”, where I live spring is suddenly here, with many elements, including some of the loudest bird song I can ever recall anywhere. The local avian life is clearly celebrating! Now, as Spring is predictable, in the space of #OpenLeadership, in that blog I wrote: “If you can predictably forecast key dates or ranges of dates where opportunities will be there for you, are you already looking at that now and investing time and resources for this? What do you need to be ready for?”
Well, continuing on that theme, what if you don’t yet know what to be ready for? I wrote this in a daily post back in May 2018:
“Liminality can perhaps be described as a fructile chaos. A fertile nothingness, a storehouse of possibilities, not by any means a random…
