The pivot feels enormous from the inside because we have attached identity to direction. Because we’ve already put in so much time and the dreams felt so real. You could be living in a dream you spent years to achieve and still feel unsatisfied. And there is a sunk cost fallacy that sits heavy and tells us that changing course means all of that was wasted.

But sunk cost is an economic term. What you spent getting here bought you the knowledge that “here” is not where you are meant to stay forever. There’s always more to explore.

Heraclitus said it twenty-five hundred years ago: "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." No matter where you go, you’re always having an original experience.

What are you looking to experience next?

Pivoting is not starting over. Nothing is lost. Things are always in a constant state of change.

The river keeps moving. So do you.

— the editors