Steve Jobs was famous for his ‘reality distortion field’, whereby he’d bend reality to make the seemingly impossible happen.
In my experience, entrepreneurs think entrepreneurial thinking is the answer to everything. I certainly used to be guilty of that thinking.
But here’s why that probably isn’t the case…
Even in a business, reality distortion works best for creating brand new things. It doesn’t necessarily work for operations, where best practice is often best (funny that). It doesn’t work when a failure to deliver leads to suffering.
So, reality distortion probably doesn’t work for running a country, as we have seen very clearly of late.
Reality distortion definitely doesn’t work in medicine where best practice is founded in evidence, not quackery.
Everything has its place, but it’s important to remember that nothing is useful in all situations.
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.