When Comfort Becomes the Enemy of Progress
By Tim Violet
Director, Business Development, North America
“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future.”
— Lao Tzu
Why do we look on the “past” with great fondness? It's always easier than looking to the future. Whether it's the good times we had as an adolescent, the nostalgia of the things we remember as a child, or the safety provided to us by our elders in times long past. The past is a known, the future is not.
The future brings out the “fear” in us, especially if we need to make important decisions going forward. In many cases, we try to avoid these decisions by creating myths to render them unneeded.
We explain them away, support the status quo, say they are unneeded, will conflict with existing systems, require more work, all because it is easier to do nothing, the past comforts us. Sometimes we rely on the notion we need more information, setting up the “paralysis by analysis” syndrome.
In truth, many will never have enough information that will allow them to make an important decision. Thus, leaving the future to chance or intervening events.
The future requires leadership if we are to change the course of what we're doing.
As Albert Einstein once said: “insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.”
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