In Lewis Carol\u2019s novella Through the Looking Glass, there\u2019s a quirky little dialog between Alice and the Red Queen:<\/p>\n
\n\u201c’Well, in our country,\u2019 said Alice, still panting a little, ‘you\u2019d generally get to somewhere else \u2014 if you run very fast for a long time, as we\u2019ve been doing.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201c’A slow sort of country!\u2019 said the Queen. ‘Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I think about this dialog a lot. Not in the context of bizarre, Victorian-era novellas, but in the normal fact that many of us, unwittingly, are doing the exact same thing.<\/p>\n
Think about your professional life. How much of the time do you spend working is getting you to where you\u2019d like to be? How much is creating growth, opportunity, mastery? And, how much is running just to stay in the same place?<\/p>\n
Stagnation is Default<\/h2>\n
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