Stumbling in the dark
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Stumbling in the dark
Yep, this goes for just about everyone. The CEO of that hot shot new company that everyone loves? He’s probably never run a company before. That director who just started managing other managers? She’s probably only managed individual contributors before. We are all constantly being asked to step up to new challenges and help lead. This is just as ... See more
Makinde Adeagbo • Nobody Knows What They’re Doing
“the spirit of the fool.” He argued that when you start learning anything new it will make you “feel clumsy, that you’ll take literal or figurative pratfalls. There’s no way around it.”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
If you’re not confused by at least half of your early research, you’re not learning as quickly as you’re capable of learning. If you start to feel intimidated or hesitant about the pace you’re attempting, you’re on the right track.
Josh Kaufman • The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!
Uncertainty has so much to teach us. We experience it not just in big life transitions, but in lesser moments of ambiguity, such as the “messy middle” of a project, when we’d like to throw in the towel. When we find ourselves in these precarious moments, our automatic response is too often fear or anxiety. And so we rush toward a defined outcome to
... See moreAnne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Only sometimes we get so absorbed in the trail—in how we’re going to achieve the goal, in our method or process—that we lose sight of the destination, of where we were going in the first place. We walk right by the opportunities that would have propelled us forward toward our planned destination.
Peter Bregman • 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
The same is true about most businesses you admire. They might seem in order from the far but within, there's always a degree of chaos present. And that's ok. That's needed. It's part of the work. We all start out blind, hit a bunch of walls until we learn how to see. We learn to see which walls to avoid, which ones to go around and which ones to br... See more