Preparation

Preparation

“Success is when opportunity meets preparation.” I’m sure you’ve heard it before. The surface level lesson is to be prepared.

The quandary that exists one layer deeper is, be prepared for what?

We can prepare for anything as long as we know what it is. But how do we prepare for something we don’t know about?

If I asked you to present a view of the future over several time periods, tomorrow, a week, a month, a year, 10 years, 100 years, and a 1000 years. You could take a reasonable guess at what life might look like, but for each subsequent time period your guess would likely be further off than the last.

How do we prepare for an unknown opportunity given that…

Preparation is not free.

It costs time, effort, plus the opportunity cost of those things. When you expect one set of circumstances but are met with another, you have invested your precious time and energy in the wrong thing and you are no better off, perhaps even worse off than if you had done nothing at all.

Suppose you think it will be a sunny day and you go out and prepare to have a wonderful day frolicking in the sunshine. You go out to buy sunglasses, sunscreen, a beach towel, sandals, a bucket to build sand castles and so on.

After you’ve spent a considerable amount of time, energy and resources preparing for a sunny day, the clouds roll in and you start to hear thunder. A torrential down pour begins and lasts the remainder of the day.

You were very prepared, only it was for the wrong opportunity.

Preparation is great, but it has to be for the right thing.

Had to share this first one because…well obviously.

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The speed of development happening is seriously profound.