What got you here keeps you here
You don’t make progress by going in circles.
What got you here won’t get you there.
— Marshall Goldsmith
What got you here got you here. It worked to get you here.
If you want to go somewhere different, you have to do something different.
What got you here won’t get you anywhere else but here, or some other version of here. Essentially the same place. A slightly different slice of the same pie.
So if you have a crappy job, or relationship, you have to change what you’ve been doing in your job or relationship. Or you will end up with another crappy job or relationship.
What got you in this pile of crap will land you in another one.
Start where you are and start doing something different, and you’ll end up somewhere different.
But if you start where you are and keep doing the same thing, you’ll end up in the same place. You’ll make a big circle–lots of motion, no real action–and end up back in a slightly different version of the very same story.
This is how most people live their lives. They live in cycles. They repeat patterns. They go in circles. They live the same stories over and over and…
