Efficiency vs Humans Skills

We all get caught in the rip currents of life.

They’re invisible headwinds that keep us on a hamster wheel.

We respond by putting in more effort, and running faster toward our goal because we haven’t discovered the tailwinds.

We get trapped by the performance paradox: the counterintuitive phenomenon that our performance suffers if we fixate solely on performing.

In most cases, the route to success is not a straight line. 

When pursuing our goals, if all we do is what we already know in an effort to try to minimize mistakes we end up stagnating.

We need the Performance Zone, essential for how we get things done. 

But we need to balance and integrate it with the Learning Zone — leaping beyond the known — by asking questions, listening, experimenting, and venturing into new domains.

To do this, we need to build habits that prevent us from getting stuck in chronic performance and instead make leaping into the unknown a part of how we live.