As management author and legend Peter Drucker said, “There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be … - Benjamin P. Hardy

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

Yes, you have a learning preference, or way of doing things. But “your way” will keep you stuck. Instead, you should mindfully assess the situation at hand and do what is required.

Who you are and what you can do in one situation is starkly different from who you are and what you can do in a different situation. Yet it is the Western way to isolate and decontextualize, whether it be variables in a science lab or ourselves. We’re really good at putting things in boxes and missing the interplay between everything.

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith explained in his book Triggers, “If we do not create and control our environment, our environment creates and controls us.