After a crisis, most people aim to get back to the state they were in before the crisis.
But there’s a problem with that.
Where you were before the crisis was what led to the crisis.
Unless you want to repeat the past, the goal in any crisis must be to transcend to a new level.
Check out this article where the Dutch school the US on this exact issue in the prevention of flooding.
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“You’ll pay more, but you’ll get more than you paid for.”
This is the first blog I’ve written since my cousin Matthew was killed flying a helicopter a few weeks ago.
We place labels on things – situations, relationships, roles – that state ‘this is this therefore this is not that.’