I don’t know that my knowledge of history is broad enough to understand all the ins-and-outs of it, but the reality of living in 2016 is that we live in a historic anomaly. To live in a time and place where you don’t have to look over your shoulder either for something coming to ruin your subsistence-farming existence or for someone coming to fight you, your city, your country, your continent, is tremendously unusual. Like, very short periods of time throughout history.
I’m thankful.
A Question to Ponder This Weekend
What do you care about most?
True Life
Yesterday evening, I was trying to do a hard thing. I had just come back to my office from getting a glass of water.
I sat down.
I did the hard thing for roughly 1.5 minutes
I loaded up facebook.
My wife walked into my office, knowing I was trying to do a hard thing. “How’s it going?”
“I did about 1.5 minutes of it… and then I loaded up facebook so I could distract myself.”
Seriously and truly, figuring out how to break those patterns throughout the workforce might be the challenge of our generation. There will be some sort of paradigm shift where someone makes a company succeed simply by getting their employees to see how much their self-distracting practices are hurting them.
Reminder
Sometimes the difference between making it and not making it is simply showing up and doing a thing pretty well, over and over and over again.
Semantic Saturation
Look at any page long enough and every word will appear to be misspelled. Ugh.