You can’t make an itch go away if you leave it alone. The problem is the temporary relief of scratching an itch. The trick then becomes how long can you hold that tension of scratching the itch.
The false hope is that tension will permanently go away. But the reality is, how do we deal with this tension. Because as soon as it goes away, more is to come.
I saw screenshot online that showed that Neo played by Keanu Reeves in The Matrix had a driver’s license that expired on 9/11/2001. Of course; that is just coincidence but it doesn’t stop humans from drawing a line to make a connection. The point is, for good and bad, we have no limits on the leaps we are willing to make.
It’s difficult to see in the moment if you are in a sunk cost or if you need to keep going.
The difference is understanding if the path is a dead end or if there truly is a path forward.
Means, “I am being judgy.”
When we better understand the world around us, the chance of impacting it improves.
We must first understand how things are done around here, but we don’t need to be restrained to do the same things we have always done.
Just cause a fire alarm goes off doesn’t mean there is a fire.
We are so focused on doing it the “right” way, we forget there is no right way of doing things around here.
Perhaps the better approach is embracing the “wrong” way.
No right or wrong. Just do.
What is the purpose and meaning behind all of this?
I’m not quite sure. But I do know one thing…
We keep telling the story.
We speak about disaster as in the same category as traffic jams. An inconvenience. Part of the problem today in the discourse is we don’t know how to talk about things of consequence with scale.
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