6Shift from Racing to Pacing
Just like it takes money to make money, it also takes time to make time. Common sense tells us that we must learn to walk before we can run. But the urgency of warp speed consistently overrides this common sense. Consequently, we speed up when we need to slow down, and we confuse activity with effectiveness. Doing the wrong thing faster and faster only accelerates our failure rate.
The mechanism that keeps this counterproductive behavior locked in place is captured perfectly by a Zen parable.
A professor of philosophy has become fed up hearing his students singing the praises of an old Zen master. Determined to get to the bottom of all the mystical mumbo-jumbo, he goes to the monastery to find out what this Zen ...
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