{
  "id": "start-with-a-clean-slate",
  "number": "112",
  "edition": "Change",
  "title": "Start with a clean slate",
  "standfirst": "Leaving the previous material behind can restore your contact with the question.",
  "when": "The existing sketches and revisions keep pulling every new attempt back toward the same form.",
  "way": "A clean slate changes the conditions of attention. It does not erase what you learned; it removes the obligation to preserve the form that carried the learning.",
  "tryThis": "Archive the current version. Start again on a blank surface without consulting it for one full pass.",
  "notice": "What returns because it matters, and what disappears because it was only inherited?",
  "person": "Bruce Lee",
  "source": "The Contemporary Blueprint archive",
  "quote": "Empty your mind and become formless and shapeless, like water. When you pour water into a cup, it becomes the cup; into a bottle, it becomes the bottle; into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or it can crash—be water, my friend.",
  "sourceUrl": "https://youtu.be/uk1lzkH-e4U",
  "contexts": [
    "change",
    "stuck",
    "decide"
  ],
  "free": true,
  "related": [
    "change-the-room",
    "begin-with-a-testable-question",
    "return-to-the-seed"
  ],
  "sourceArchive": "The Contemporary Blueprint",
  "referenceKind": "quotation",
  "referenceExcerpt": "Empty your mind and become formless and shapeless, like water. When you pour water into a cup, it becomes the cup; into a bottle, it becomes the bottle; into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or it can crash—be water, my friend."
}