LUCK FACTOR 15 – LIVING IN THE MOMENT
‘Having [a goal] is generally deemed a good thing. The benefit of something to strive toward. This can also blind you, however: you see only your goal, and nothing else, while this something else – wider, deeper – may be considerably more interesting and important.’ RYSZARD KAPUŚCIŃSKI,The Shadow of the Sun
You’ve probably come across the phrase ‘goal-blindness’. A situation where you become so fixated by a specific goal that you fail to appreciate what is around you now. This fixation is also damaging in cases where progress renders your specific goal obsolete and meaningless because of what is going on in the outside world. This applies particularly where modern technologies are concerned.
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