As soon as you have the capacity to detach, and not be a productive asset, you are playing a completely different game.
If YOU are “not required”. You have the ability to invest time. This may, or may not, be for something that will turn you back into a productive asset.
Some areas require years of education before there is any sign of output. Sometimes, you even need to put in years of education just to be able to understand the signs!
Money is a blunt cross-discipline tool to demonstrate output in areas others don’t understand. Someone pays you to do that? Someone pays you a lot to do that? Ok, it must be valuable.
Not needing to demonstrate value in the short term allows you to go through long stretches of not knowing what you are doing. Asking embarrassing questions. Feeling annoying. Connecting dots. Mapping your ignorance. Not being respected.
We sort people based on how quickly they pick things up. Sometimes, deep understanding requires admitting ignorance AND YET persisting.
We have a bias to monitoring and action. For some things to do their work, they need to be left alone. For some things to do their work, they can’t also have to do the communication work of keeping others regularly informed.
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