The Edge
When you enter a new system, a new market, a new company, you are not bound by the rules of the system because you haven't learned them yet. At this stage you're effective because your're good at what you do.
After a while, you begin to soften what you do. You compromise as you learn the rules of the system. The system catches up with you.
There's an initial period where you're good because you're different. After you learn the rules you become indifferent. This is the edge.
When you get to the edge, you start to think you can't do it any longer, that you have lost your magic. Well, perhaps you never had magic, what you had was the difference.
You can get to the point where your ideas aren't unique any more, where your perspective isn't different any more, where your views aren't a breath of fresh air any more. You become accustomed to the system and it becomes accustomed to you.
But what is the next frontier? Does it mean you have to keep moving?
It means that when you get to the edge, step off.
After a while, you begin to soften what you do. You compromise as you learn the rules of the system. The system catches up with you.
There's an initial period where you're good because you're different. After you learn the rules you become indifferent. This is the edge.
When you get to the edge, you start to think you can't do it any longer, that you have lost your magic. Well, perhaps you never had magic, what you had was the difference.
You can get to the point where your ideas aren't unique any more, where your perspective isn't different any more, where your views aren't a breath of fresh air any more. You become accustomed to the system and it becomes accustomed to you.
But what is the next frontier? Does it mean you have to keep moving?
It means that when you get to the edge, step off.
posted by Peter Freeth at 13:02
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