Short Sighted

Prioritising endurance recognises that time is the single most important ingredient in wealth creation. All lives end. This means we become obsessed with a single grain of sand on the beach. Our grain. Our working lives are even shorter than that. Our memories and plans still shorter. The numbers we clutch to for confidence in the winds and waves shorter still. Annual reviews. Quarterly performance. Weekly goals. Neighbours. This makes us Myopic. Short-sighted. We think in contrasts. In opposites. In categories. We layer on human stories to make sense of a picture we are too close to, to see. We pre-judge because we don’t have the time or capacity to even know all the things we don’t know. I don’t have the answer, but I think it starts with breathing. With silence. Limited knowledge. Limited power. Limited presence. Survival. Sometimes wealth creation requires slowing down. Action through inaction.