Capacity Over Capability | Claire Sewell
What if the question isn’t whether you’re capable, but whether you have the capacity to experience what comes with the life you want?
In this Conversation from the Capacity Lab™, I sit down with Claire Sewell for a wide-ranging exploration of capacity, discomfort, the body, evidence, relationships, sales, grief, surrender, and the stories we create when we’re trying to avoid what feels uncomfortable.
We talk about the difference between capability and capacity, what happens when the external evidence hasn’t caught up with the work you’re doing, and the sometimes very fine line between expanding your capacity and overriding yourself.
We also get into what it means to listen to the body, the capacity to be judged, the assumptions we make about other people, and how those assumptions can sometimes protect us from having to look at what’s happening within ourselves.
There are no neat answers here. In fact, Claire and I don’t agree on everything. She sees capacity as something already within us, waiting to be uncovered. I believe there are aspects of capacity we can deliberately train.
And that’s exactly what these conversations are for.
Not to prove a theory, but to put our experiences, questions and different ways of seeing things on the table and discover what’s there.
Because perhaps the life we want doesn’t require us to become more capable.
Perhaps it asks us to expand what we’re willing and able to hold while we live it.
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