Becoming astute in cracking the code of the ‘how to make it'…i.e. memorizing the answers, memorizing the map, figuring it out…
…to go along with that, you’re going to have to be very good at forgetting.
All the answers you memorize are going to change. The mountain range on the map is going to move.
And now the old ‘knowing’ doesn’t really do you a whole lot of good. It’s best to forget as quickly as possible what you once knew in favor of what it has turned into.
That’s why it’s hard for a manager to break a second baby act. They have a really hard time forgetting the way they broke their first one.
We all want to believe we’re building our knowledge toward the sure-thing, the repeatable process.
But more than ever we need to be willing to forget in order to adapt quicker.
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