Good Morning,
We all know life is full of changes:
With speed of change increasing, it gets harder to plan for the future.
So what can we do?
One bit of advice comes from some 1,800 years ago from our friend Marcus Aurelius who says:
"Consider whence each thing is come, and of what it consists, and into what it changes, and what kind of thing it will be when it has changed, and then it will sustain no harm."
The Roman Emperor is suggesting that we embrace change by understanding change better. That by looking deep into that which is changing and seeing what it was prior to the change and what it is changing into, we can better understand what it means and how to better prepare for and embrace it.
Part of this embracing change is also not holding onto what we will lose (what is changing), rather what we will gain. Often we see change and fail to look deeper than the superficial change and nothing more. Kind of like judging a book by its cover, but instead of a book, it is change.
Seeing deeper into something that is changing will help us understand it better and take the fangs out of the change. We may not like what is changing, and how it means to our lives, but at least we understand it better and can plan for how to face it.
We all know life is full of changes:
- Technology Changes
- Rules Change
- Work Changes
- People Change
- Economies Change
- Change changes
- No WiFi
- No World Wide Web
- No Cell phones (smaller than footballs)
- No PDFs (from Adobe anyway)
- No Flat Screen TV's, much less computer monitors (plenty of green CRTs though)
- No Online anything except proprietary and closed networks (BitNet, DunsNet, Military, etc)
- 20 Meg Hard Drives (if you were lucky enough to have a hard drive)
- Commodore 64 was still king!
- No personal computers (Certainly nothing you would want to put on your lap)
- No Digital, and possibly limited transistor technology
- No cordless anything electronic (I may be wrong on this one)
- No Visa or MasterCard, but Amex cards were a full 1 year old!!
- No VCR, much less DVD, CDs, or cassettes. And get this, no 8 Track Tapes either (they were 6 years away from entering the scene), but you could get Reel to Reel tapes!
- There is TV, but I am certain you would not like to watch the Sunday games on it (http://www.tvhistory.tv/pre-1935.htm).
- You get the point.
With speed of change increasing, it gets harder to plan for the future.
So what can we do?
One bit of advice comes from some 1,800 years ago from our friend Marcus Aurelius who says:
"Consider whence each thing is come, and of what it consists, and into what it changes, and what kind of thing it will be when it has changed, and then it will sustain no harm."
The Roman Emperor is suggesting that we embrace change by understanding change better. That by looking deep into that which is changing and seeing what it was prior to the change and what it is changing into, we can better understand what it means and how to better prepare for and embrace it.
Part of this embracing change is also not holding onto what we will lose (what is changing), rather what we will gain. Often we see change and fail to look deeper than the superficial change and nothing more. Kind of like judging a book by its cover, but instead of a book, it is change.
Seeing deeper into something that is changing will help us understand it better and take the fangs out of the change. We may not like what is changing, and how it means to our lives, but at least we understand it better and can plan for how to face it.
Enjoy!
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