posted by Andrew Hartley - Business Consultant & Entrepreneur on Mar 3
Okay, so the more I read blogs, the more I am amazed at the similarities between people.
Verna Wilder, for instance, consistently impresses me with the similarities between what she does (or wants to do) and what I do (or want to do). Recently, Verna posted about wanting to learn to play the harmonica. In her usual manner, she wrote beautifully about the lesson that particular interest was currently teaching her: to really learn something, you must first learn to have a Beginner’s mind. I’ve long wanted to learn to play piano, guitar, etc., but I have trouble starting something that I don’t already understand or basically know how to do already. It’s silly, but difficult for many people, I imagine.
Another thing I’ve noticed is that as soon as you start something, the universe provides to make it work (as long as you really want it)! Within a month of starting this blog, another blogger posts about flying! Ben Casnocha, a blogger, entrepreneur, and passionate player of table tennis, recently took his first flight in a small aircraft. Apparently, a friend of his owns what appears from the picture to be a Cirrus airplane and he was taken on a flight over Colorado. I’d accuse him of trying to elbow into my metaphor, but I’m sure he doesn’t know who I am, nor does he need my traffic. :) I have two questions for him, though:
- Did you think about the similarities between flying that plane and starting/running a business?
- Where have you heard about the “unusually high rate of small aircraft accidents?”
So it’s a small world; people separated by hundreds, even thousands of miles - people who have never even met each other - are connected in strange, interesting ways. Verna has reminded me that to learn and do something new, you have to start by accepting that you aren’t going to be good at it at first, and that’s okay. And Ben has reminded me that one of the main goals of this blog is to build a metaphor connecting aviation and business-building - and I have yet to truly post on that topic. Watch for that post soon!
Thanks, Verna.
Thanks, Ben.
Thanks, readers - for your comments! Keep ‘em coming… have you noticed the connections between strangers and essentially disparate people? How did the connections become obvious to you?
