You grow more not from having the best platform – the strongest, the fastest, the most advanced – but from optimizing what is available for maximum output and performance.
You don’t become a better driver by getting in a faster car. Instead, you improve through the iterative and repetitive process of refining your driving style and car setup, even if that car has lower performance potential than a high-horsepower sports car. Working to optimize within your confines allows you to operate at a higher percentage of the threshold, learning and growing faster than you would if you had a higher ceiling to work with.
Back to the car example. You can learn to consistently drive a hundred horsepower Miata at 100% of its potential or you can drive a 600 horsepower Corvette Z06 at 60%, never reaching it’s performance potential, but going fast nonetheless. One makes grows your skill; the other gives you the illusion of talent.
The fine-tuning process of optimization is humbling. You are literally learning to do more with less. The same process applies to how you should approach your job, skills, talents and opportunities.
🧠 Make the most of your resources today.
Growth is not about bigger, faster, stronger or more. It is about optimization today. Optimization then leads to bigger, faster, stronger and more tomorrow.
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