11/7/2022 0 Comments Collins key![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While the world ignored this dormant-looking egg, the chicken was evolving, growing, developing, incubating. But what does it look like from the chicken’s point of view? It’s a completely different story. No one pays it much attention until, one day, the egg cracks open and out jumps a chicken! All the major magazines and newspapers jump on the event, writing feature stories-“The Transformation of Egg to Chicken!” “The Remarkable Revolution of the Egg!” “Stunning Turnaround at Egg!”-as if the egg had undergone some overnight metamorphosis, radically altering itself into a chicken. But from the inside, they feel completely different, more like an organic development process. From the outside, they look like dramatic, almost revolutionary breakthroughs. We’ve allowed the way transitions look from the outside to drive our perception of what they must feel like to those going through them on the inside. Some pushes may have been bigger than others, but any single heave-no matter how large-reflects a small fraction of the entire cumulative effect upon the flywheel. Was it the first push? The second? The fifth? The hundredth? No! It was all of them added together in an overall accumulation of effort applied in a consistent direction. You wouldn’t be able to answer it’s just a nonsensical question. Now suppose someone came along and asked, “What was the one big push that caused this thing to go so fast?” The huge heavy disk flies forward, with almost unstoppable momentum. A thousand times faster, then ten thousand, then a hundred thousand. Each turn of the flywheel builds upon work done earlier, compounding your investment of effort. You’re pushing no harder than during the first rotation, but the flywheel goes faster and faster. Then, at some point-breakthrough! The momentum of the thing kicks in in your favor, hurling the flywheel forward, turn after turn. You keep pushing in a consistent direction. You keep pushing, and the flywheel begins to move a bit faster, and with continued great effort, you move it around a second rotation. You keep pushing and, after two or three hours of persistent effort, you get the flywheel to complete one entire turn. Pushing with great effort, you get the flywheel to inch forward, moving almost imperceptibly at first. Now imagine that your task is to get the flywheel rotating on the axle as fast and long as possible. Picture a huge, heavy flywheel-a massive metal disk mounted horizontally on an axle, about 30 feet in diameter, 2 feet thick, and weighing about 5,000 pounds. ![]()
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