I see this happening all the time, everywhere. People get so immersed in their own niche problems—often things that have NO effect on their own lives—that because it doesn’t apply to them or they don’t like it for whatever reason, they want to shut down the “problem.” And in doing so, they completely miss what’s happening to their own freedoms on a much larger scale, along with their lessening power.
They’re so distracted by what’s on other people’s plates that they never notice what’s happening with their own food chain.
I’ve seen it in publishing for decades—people who don’t like ebooks, or indie publishing, or rapid release strategies, or critique groups, or using AI to write your book description. And it’s not just publishing.
I’ve seen it in Acquisition for decades—people determined to stop rapid acquisition, who FARify their Other Transactions into something useless, or turn Middle Tier of Acquisition into the old documentation-heavy way of doing business, all because they’re not personally comfortable and wouldn’t do it themselves, so therefore no one else should either. And of course, social issues… do I even have to point that out?
Things don’t stay the same. They’re not meant to. We are always evolving, either forward or backward—though backward is devolving. Even trying to stay the same is stagnating, because if everything else moves and you don’t, it’s the same as going backward. Stagnate is an active verb, while stagnant is an illusory state of being.
And while we’re so caught up in telling others how to live their lives and which tools to use or not, we lose sight of the big picture. If we ever had it. And by the time we finally look at our own plate again, the food chain has already shifted.
This isn’t another set of rules; it’s your permission slip to break them and find happiness on your own terms.
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