Tuesday, July 07, 2020

Frogs Who Pay Attention


Leap-frogging is when you skip a step. Following Best Practice is when you look around the world, see who is doing well and who is doing badly, and pick the best way. When there are 7.8 Billion people on the planet, being obsessed with uniqueness is going to severely limit your options. If you are building a bridge, you don’t want a Contrarian Engineer. When you are stuck with a problem in a particular context, the world now offers natural experiments of every shape and size if you pay attention. What happens if you change the story? Micro-ambition is small, achievable goals. A Daily Practice is the habit of connecting incremental progress. Pay attention to other people’s stories. Listen. See. Not as a form of comparison. Instead as Bruce Lee said, to “Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.” Wealth and knowledge compound. But much of that knowledge is freely available to frogs who pay attention. Then jump.



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