The other kind of compass draws a perfect circle by keeping one point still. Stay grounded and you can reach further.

Reach depends on something staying put. The drawing kind of compass makes a perfect circle only because one leg never moves, and the further out the other leg goes, the more the fixed point matters. People work that way too. The ones who travel furthest from where they started are usually the ones with something firmly held: a family, a standard, a place they can go back to.

Work out what your fixed point is. Spend an hour this week on it rather than on the reaching, and notice how much steadier the reaching feels.