I was taking a walk a few days ago and was listening to an audio book called 10x is easier than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy.

And this is a book essentially about how exponential growth requires a reframing.

A change to the way we think about ourselves and the journeys that we're on.

And in it, Sullivan states, and I'm paraphrasing,

the things that brought you to the current moment will keep you there.

Powerful.

In a lens through which I hadn't really looked at my personal growth or journey before,

I've always thought of progress as a stacking of repeatable habits over and over again.

And while this may not be wrong, Sullivan and Hardy make a pretty effective argument that it's only part of the story.

See, if you show up and you do the exact same argument that it's only part of the story.

See, if you show up and you do the exact same thing every day, you'll get growth, no doubt,

but it will be linear in nature.

Exponential growth requires instances of self-recreation,

of evolution as we make our way forward. It's a continuous pushing aside of things we don't need to be doing

and a simultaneous deep dive into the things that bring us the most return.

They use the example of the things that bring us the most return.

They use the example of the famous Michelangelo, who is known for his paintings, right?

And then some time goes by and he produces a 17-foot statue of David.

And then he pivots again, as he's commissioned by Pope Julius II, to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and then moves on to direct even larger project. And each example here

is a 10x evolution. Certainly not a road that could have been mapped out from day one.

How would he ever have known?

But it's a series of sometimes even lateral moves.

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