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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Almost everyone I know who has achieved greatness in something, be that business, sports, the arts, they all began their journey to escape something.
When we want something, we are taught to visualise that thing, to focus on that image, until we have it.