Many video games are based on similar engines and formulas. They know what works and they follow that plan, new games come along because the engine is proven and they re-use it to save money. The formula stays the same with little to no improvement, costs decrease, and the need to do “well” drops because development time was saved and we can do “meh”. Or you can stay in a hole for a while, or…
You wouldn’t attend a bad movie (or you might start and then leave?) You wouldn’t go to a bad restaurant? You wouldn’t continue going to a bad store you’ve had a continually bad experience with? So why keep going to a bad meeting where you are getting nothing out of? Where nothing good happens? Where all you get is a another 5 minutes of your life back at the end?
Someone makes a cool video and everyone jumps on. It becomes a trend and everyone starts to do it because they get views – the trend becomes bigger but then becomes stale as innovation drops. Now it’s just someone else doing the same thing they’ve seen a thousand (or more times). No one wants to do the same thing over and over again in life, but it exists for views (the exact opposite of why…
The New Year started 2 days ago. Have you finished all your goals and met all your resolutions? Are you executing as well as you said you would? Are you doing this now but when you go back to work everything will come bearing down on you and you’ll be stopped in your tracks? Find your Learner within, that which can sustain and meet your schedule, that which doesn’t have the expectation to get everything…
A sponge absorbs everything around it. It doesn’t expel it all correctly, but absorbing is what it does perfectly. If you can be a sponge and absorb everything, focus on that one great thing, you’re far ahead of so many you aren’t even doing that. Be the sponge that absorbs it all, everything else will fall into place from there.