Quote of the Day: John Lennon on Creativity

January has a way of making us hungry for certainty. New calendars invite clean plans, bold goals, tidy answers. But the deeper you step into a fresh year, the more you notice life doesn’t stay neat for long, because growth expands what you can see. That’s why this line lands so honestly: “The more I see the less I know for sure.”

Lennon isn’t celebrating confusion; he’s pointing to maturity. Early certainty is often just untested belief. When you read widely, meet different people, and try harder problems, the world stops being a simple map and becomes a living landscape, full of edge cases, trade-offs, and surprises. Instead of taking that as a loss, treat it as evidence you’re finally learning in 3D.

Practically, this mindset improves your decisions. When you admit what you don’t know, you ask better questions, you verify assumptions, and you leave room for new data. In your work, it looks like running small experiments instead of making grand declarations. In relationships, it looks like listening to understand rather than listening to win, an everyday act of humility. Uncertainty handled well becomes fuel for curiosity.

John Lennon earned his authority the hard way: reshaping modern music as a Beatles songwriter and later using his solo work and public voice to argue, consistently, for peace and human dignity.

Today, pick one opinion you’ve been carrying as “obvious,” and do a 10-minute audit: write down the strongest argument against it, then one small test that could prove you wrong. Let that openness make you sharper, kinder, and freer, walk into the day with questions, and let them guide you well.