I believe George Bernard Shaw said, "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man".
I believe this is entirely true, and I believe that when you stop being unreasonable or disagreeable or emotionally and intellectually curious, you lose the opportunity to move along.
Everybody wants 'sustainable growth' where we drip drip along to a format safely and easily, home at 5 o'clock, back in at 9, level playing field, do the job, it'll all work out.
It isn't like that, that's not how it is.
Sustainable growth is actually a slow road to death.
Unreasonable growth, the ability to change pathways, the ability to see what might happen, the ability to be extraordinarily paranoid, even at the best of times, that's when the winning is done.
That's how improvement is done.
You can aim for the top, or you can aim for the bottom.
Sustainable growth aims for the bottom; unreasonable growth usually achieves sustainable growth, but only because you started out trying to be unreasonable.
Blog Post Number - 4169