THE SEVEN ACCELERANTS OF LEARNING AND GROWTH
Consider a chunk of broken asphalt—a road full of potholes. At some point, there was a hairline fracture, tiny, certainly not worthy of repair. There was rain or melting snow. Water seeped into the asphalt, froze, and expanded—and the asphalt broke.
Asphalt has enormous compression strength: it can withstand thousands of pounds of surface or external pressure. So why did it break? Because it has far less tensile strength. It can’t withstand pressure from within.
People are a bit like asphalt. We can handle a lot of external pressure. If this gives ...
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