Repeating past mistakes or patterns that don’t get us where we are going notwithstanding the feeling of forward progress is reminiscent of attempting to cut very hard wood with a saw – painfully difficult and feeling difficult with negligible noticeable performance.
Progress, in just about everything, is a combo of many steps forward, shifts sideways, setbacks and steps forward again – that, if you diagramed it, you might see like the tooth pattern of a cross-cut saw blade. And sometimes it feels more like being cut by the real saw blade …
However, eventually, you get through it – and looking back it isn’t so much how hard it was or how long it took but how exhausting it was. Especially when it brings that déjà vu feeling of having plowed the same ground before, over and over again.
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