We Have Always Done It That Way

Shel Israel (co-author of Naked Conversations) has a simply outstanding post on his blog about reflections on life at age 63. Really, read the whole thing. It’s great.

But I’ll quote a couple of lines that struck me as kindred thoughts to We Have Always Done It That Way:

Without discovery, you start growing old fast. Those who adopt a “been there-done that” grow old rapidly from not going anywhere new.

Habits can make you too comfortable, so every now and then break them just to see what happens.

I have outlived the eras in which conventional wisdom complacently knew that IBM, DEC, HP, Microsoft, Google and the old AT&T were too entrenched and too powerful to be disrupted by some upstart entrepreneur.

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