As we move up to the more sophisticated level, the landscape changes because everything becomes more complex. We may have to shift our belief systems and rewire our thinking in order to become accomplished players at that level.
It reminds me of climbing a mountain. When I climbed Aconcagua back in 2007, we ascended this beast of a mountain at 1000 meter intervals from base camp.
As you ascend the landscape changes from barren to moonscape to snow and ice. The air gets thinner and thinner and sometimes you have to spend as long as 24 hours acclimatizing to the lack of oxygen. Headaches set in, you feel short of breath and your pace gets more gradual the higher you get.
Your equipment also changes: you start wearing thermals, North Face Down Jackets, Crampons, and Koflach boots.
Personal development requires one, if one is interested in moving up to higher levels, to be able to hold more perspective.
This means for example that you not only connect with your needs, but also with your partners needs, the needs of your family, your community's needs as well as what’s going on with your country and the world at large.
As things accelerate, our ability to stay focused, calm as well as hold increased perspective and understanding becomes more and more important. Because at 6000 meters above sea level there’s a lot that can go wrong.
So I ask you: are you mentally prepared for the rate of acceleration by which things are changing?
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