It’s not about you; you have a role to play.
It made me think of our own lives and how it is also a mesh of knowns and unknowns. You were born out of the meeting of two other humans who could have met completely different people under different sets of circumstances. You grew up in a certain part of the world around a particular group of people who speak a specific language. A huge part of what you do still depends on the known and unknown impact of people and circumstances around you. Either way, you have to work with and around them.
Your job will need you to see yourself as a part of a whole; a cog in a wheel that moves the whole car forward. Your role will require you to do what will achieve the best results for the team you work with. It will not always be easy but it is necessary; you will not always get ideal situations but you adapt and execute.
If you are the founder of a company, you quickly realize that some of the ideas that will propel the company forward will not even come from you. The growth of your company actually begins when you realize it is not about you but the whole team plays a role in the success. Even outside your direct team, there are other major factors, completely outside your control, that still play a huge role in it. The decisions you make should be for the good of the company as a whole and not what you personally think or want.
It’s not about you; you have a role to play.
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I recently read a book called ‘Astrophysics for People in a Hurry’ by Neil Degrasse Tyson. Yes, even since I was young, I have always had an interest in all things space. More than watching space movies, I loved reading books about Astronomy, those big voluminous ones. Anyway, this particular book takes all the complexities of the Universe away and makes it palatable for normal folk; not completely but it tries. The main point that stands out is that there are so many things already discovered out there in the Universe: planets, galaxies, stars, asteroids and comets. Then there are invisible forces and energy that have been ‘discovered’ while some are still being investigated and exist as equations.
In all this, our earth is not even a dot in the universe; it doesn’t even register in the scheme of things. Our solar system is part of the Milky Way galaxy which is a made up of a hundred billion other stars much like or bigger than our sun. The rest of the Universe then has a further hundred billion galaxies, most of which are bigger than our own. We are put in place by things that are visible but also by things that are invisible and incomprehensible like Dark Matter and Dark Energy. It’s a complex mesh of knowns and unknowns that make up the Universe and directly affect life on our planet. Makes you feel small right?