the disorientation isn't about the absence of a map alone… It's about having had someone else's map so deeply internalized that its absence feels like failure rather than recalibration.
Corporate structures don't just tell you what to do ….they tell you what competence looks like, what success looks like, what a good week feels like.
Leaving removes that measurement system. The first real work of independent life isn't just finding a new path -- It's rebuilding your own sense of what forward means.
Taking the proverbial road less traveled means you have to be present to your life. What a refreshing thought! Though most prefer the well laid path, with titled jobs and the identity that goes with that. But what if we're here to learn and grow, and not follow a pre prescribed plan built by someone else? (Then the prescribed plan isn't the plan at all! ) For years I've said "always have a good tale to tell". It's not a bad way to approach much of life.
the disorientation isn't about the absence of a map alone… It's about having had someone else's map so deeply internalized that its absence feels like failure rather than recalibration.
Corporate structures don't just tell you what to do ….they tell you what competence looks like, what success looks like, what a good week feels like.
Leaving removes that measurement system. The first real work of independent life isn't just finding a new path -- It's rebuilding your own sense of what forward means.
Taking the proverbial road less traveled means you have to be present to your life. What a refreshing thought! Though most prefer the well laid path, with titled jobs and the identity that goes with that. But what if we're here to learn and grow, and not follow a pre prescribed plan built by someone else? (Then the prescribed plan isn't the plan at all! ) For years I've said "always have a good tale to tell". It's not a bad way to approach much of life.
Nice one. Took me a long time to realise that and still and probably always will be in the middle of it :)