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.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.
In church the other day, the pastor gave a sermon that really stuck with me. He talked about two people.