Growth Is Oscillating Stealth Mode

"Growth Is Oscillating”

What’s up everyone.

I know I'm not in the woods today, but wanted to shoot this because it's been a while and I had something awesome come up that I wanted to share.

People think that growth is this linear trajectory, right?

You've got, you know over the course of time,

Here's the amount of success and it's this steady straight line.

I don't know about you, but if you've strived for any sort of achievement,

You know that's not the case at all.

Now many people will also believe that, maybe it's not a straight line,

But it kind of bumps and goes along this line.

You go up and down, have ups and downs, but ultimately in that trajectory of growth.

Maybe that's the case for some people.

But what I have found is that there's actually a whole second axis here.

Where up is Success, down is failure.

Down is mistakes. This is challenges. This is hardship. This is despair,

And it actually goes like this where you'll go up and then you'll go down equally as far,

And then you'll go up higher more and then you'll go down further,

And you'll go up even higher and then down even lower.

And so it's this never-ending Loop of how the bigger the highs, the lower the lows and the larger the challenges become and it's never ending.

So to think that some measure of success will afford you the ability to not have problems is simply naive.

It's simply short-sighted.

What I have found is actually embracing the challenges, embracing the struggle, embracing the problems…

Problems are the currency of Entrepreneurship because every time I solve a problem or I overcome a challenge or I find a way around an obstacle,

I've now grown that much more and afford myself the opportunity to achieve success at even greater heights.

Now again, with those greater heights comes the opportunity and the likelihood of having the deeper lows and larger challenges.

It kind of seems counterintuitive.

But the deeper on that bottom axis, the larger the challenge or the bigger the problem.

So choose your problems wisely, choose your path wisely.

Ray Dalio, the famous hedge fund founder, wise thinker and business philosopher talks about struggling.

Well, he says we all struggle.

No matter what we do, no matter how little we want to, we're going to struggle no matter what.

But choosing what I want to struggle in is important because if I don't choose, I will simply have struggles in my life no matter what that I can't really control.

But if I simply say I want to go that way and that's the direction I want to go…

That is the struggle I'm choosing and the problems that I'm choosing to encounter, to come up to and find a way to overcome or get past.

So struggle well, my friends. Talk soon.

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