Everything looks different from far away.
Hard to pick out the detail.
Hard to get the feel of exactly what’s going on.
This is particularly true when the distance is measured in units of time.
The project you have planned for six months away, the event that is in the pipeline, the invitation you acceptor the thing that you dread all take on greater significance of increased awareness of possible pleasure or a heightened sense of doom from a distance. Almost all of the time it’s not quite as good (or bad) as you thought it would be. It probably relates heavily to the peak end rule of psychology where our perception of something is enhanced or amplified after the event. The secret though is to develop a vision based on experience of how these things will turn out. The complication in dentistry rarely leads to people being stopped from working; the invitation to speak at an event is rarely dazzling or as great for the ego as it seems from a long way away.
Vision is a developed skill that we could all be better at to help us make the decisions of what we’d like to spend our time on from a long way out.
Blog Post Number: 831
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