Navigating Ambiguity
It's been said that success is about staying in the game long enough for your good decisions to coalesce into leaps forward...
It's a wonderfully pithy statemement. It encompasses the idea that you need to lean in and do the work, but it also tell us that success often arrives in uneven confusing clusters with long tense periods of nothing in between; like waiting for luggage at the airport.
During those inbetween moments is when the hard questions hit:
How do you know you are doing the right things?
How do you know you are trying hard enough?
How do you know if you if you are paying attention the right things?
And so on...
It amazes me how valuable instinct is in these periods. Decision frameworks are great, but having a stong sense of what is real, what is important, and what is valuable keeps it all together while you navigate the ambiguity.
