Tony Fadell talks says “there’s always a crisis” in his book ‘Build’. It may be a company, career, or personal crisis, but the point is that there is always one happening.
This idea didn’t sit right with me. Sure, I get that a crisis can help increase focus, but I’m unconvinced that we need to live in a constant state of moving from one problem to the next. I think that diminishes the urgency when there is a legitimate crisis.
A simple example is we need periods of rest, sometimes extended periods, to give us the space and freedom to creatively explore what the future holds. We can’t do that work in a crisis.