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Picking A Direction Beats Random Wandering
Do you know where the road you’re on is taking you?
“You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with (and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse).”
Jordan Peterson, via MoveMe Quotes
How much of an impact can a one degree change in the direction of your car’s steering wheel have? A life-changing one — that’s for sure.
One degree to the left and you might collide with a guard rail. One degree to the right and you might steer into another person’s lane.
Even when we try to drive straight, what we’re really doing is making a series of micro-adjustments over and over again, left and right, as we try to steady the car forward.
THIS is what forward actually looks like — it’s never a perfectly straight line. Or, maybe more precisely, it’s a long chain of very small straight lines that are connected top to bottom, that gradually lead in different (better) directions.
