Expansion

I’m on the way up to KL for a SuperKids and I’m Gifted So Are You Preview at the Hilton. Something struck me as I was reading this book by Peter Senge and gang entitled ‘Presence’. I realized that the more I start going outward, venturing beyond the shores (Adam is in India as I type this) in order to develop the business, I’m exploring my thoughts, feelings and experiences more deeply. It’s almost as if the business has taken on a whole new level of personal spirituality.

 

I have a few ideas on this. First it’s likely that by involving oneself in business, one actually ends up learning more about oneself. Which is the most logical thing. Second, it’s also likely that through the different experiences one has, these experiences will begin to form a valence with experiences of the past, making things ‘make sense’. But it’s the third idea that really got me thinking.

 

What if everything we do is nothing more than a progressive realization that we are more and more insignificant? That the more we know, the less we know. The more we grow, the smaller we are. The faster we move, the slower we go.

 

Does this paradox encircle everything we do?

 

I often joke that it’s not “killing two birds with one stone”. Rather, it’s “killing two stones with one bird”. To me it’s a more humane thing. J But of course, it’s the reversal that forces us to think in different ways. What if “a doctor a day keeps the apple away”? Or, what if “focusing on your outcome” is less important than “outcoming on your focus”?

 

It brings a weird kind of revelation… that there is more to what we are doing that meets the eye.