Perception

At the times..

Writing this now after short delay from the earlier post. some may think short is not the case but time is subjective how it is thought. Some think one needs to have something happening all the time - for some they wait longer and observe the journey reaching the target - which might have changed during the trip.

This can be also relate to worklife, and how you set "cornerstones" to follow there. Quote below can be thought of crucial within traditional corporate life supporting self-promoting, defending turfs, and thinking career has been success if getting higher titles - some wrongly thinking title brings power, but power can be divided also into power and effecting power. Meaning position of title owner might be affected someone having influence.

The actual quote - from John Boyd, which he told for some of his subordinates when there was choice seen in the air:

Tiger, one day you will come to a fork in the road and you’re going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. He raised his hand and pointed. “If you go that way you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and you will get good assignments.” Then Boyd raised his other hand and pointed in another direction. “Or you can go that way and you can do something- something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself. If you decide you want to do something, you may not get promoted and you may not get the good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won’t have to compromise yourself. You will be true to your friends and to yourself. And your work might make a difference. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That’s when you will have to make a decision. To be or to do? Which way will you go?

As traditional corporate life support being member of club (not black and white way though) rather than doing something good, it is constant self-promoting on having list of topics, which is quantitative approach, whereas more cost-effective and futureproof is qualitative. Sadly enough, quantative seems to be preferred usually.

This also brings "accepted way" of doing things. What if you would put your work in perspective of; studying n years for certain area, and then coming to work - to do stuff like it was done n+y years ago? Is the constant study just to survive doing old stuff? or being able to question what has been done, in order to make actual evolution? Or is the "renewal" only changing job to something else where things work similarly?

On the above, some professions also stick that if you don't have actual field experience for some years, one is not qualified to teach anymore the subject - what it would mean in practice? Of course we should learn from history, but also look into future - history being standing in the shoulders of giants to look further ahead than just inventing wheel again, and understanding Alan Watt's definition for time as past is made from the present, similarly like future is made from present.

Oh well, the whole post prolly is just a preface for the quote from Marilyn Ferguson, without specific meaning:

"If we continue to believe as we have always believed, we will continue to act as we have always acted. If we continue to act as we have always acted, we will continue to get what we have always gotten."