The Urge to Push Harder Is a Smoke Alarm
When you feel the urge to push harder, stop and listen to it. The Exponential Individuals Playbook reframes that urge as a smoke alarm. The blaring is not the fire. It is the warning that something upstream is misaligned — a goal pointed at the wrong target, a process built to waste motion, a role you have outgrown. Push harder and you are spraying water at the alarm. The fire keeps burning where you cannot see it. ...