What Are You Sacrificing in the Name of Progress?

What Are You Sacrificing in the Name of Progress Real Estate Small Business Coach Jeremy Williams Red Hawk Coaching Survive Scale Soar Author

What are we sacrificing by always being focused on progressing?

I asked my son this evening, "Tell me what this is in the photo."

He looked at me and after what you could see was much discernment, he said, "It's one of those phones with the spinners."

Almon Brown Stowger was granted the first patent for the rotary phone in 1892, and the rotary did not become a main fixture in homes until the 1950's. It wasn't 20 years later, and the touch tone phone was becoming the go to for telecommunication. 50 years later and we are at a place where the device in your hand is more powerful than a desktop.

While there are many benefits to progression in any aspect of life, what I find most often lost is the knowledge of how we ended up from Point A to Point B. I started this off by suggesting we are sacrificing something. It's history. It's understanding why we have the freedoms we do today. It's understanding how a bill becomes a law. Remember the cartoon from SchoolHouse Rock, "I'm Just a Bill"?

Things are progressing so fast that we miss out on the opportunities of learning and the art of questioning things. The water hose is wide open, and we are trying to consume it all. It's overwhelming. Sometimes it is so much info that we just skip the how and the why something exists and just accept what is.

Are you feeling this? I know I can't be the only one.

For my friends that enjoy writing, isn't it funny how a picture or an interaction can trigger a thought that you've got to get out of your head and in writing. It started with something that I found funny with my son, yet there was a lesson there.

This evening, I am going to slow down, crack open a real book (not a digital book) and read. Right now I am really enjoying Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton. It's the story of a band of U.S. Soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan shortly after the fall of the World Trade Center. I might even hop on the Amazon to see if I can pick up a rotary phone for the kitchen.

Onward and Upward,
Coach Jeremy

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