The moment you realize you are lost is later than the moment you stopped going the right way.
REFLECTION
WHAT THIS MEANS
There is always a gap between going wrong and knowing it. You continued confidently for some distance past the actual mistake, and the moment of realization is only the moment the evidence became undeniable, not the moment things changed. Awareness lags the event.
So when you notice you are off course, do not use the point of realization as the starting point of your review. Look back further for where the turn actually happened. And build in earlier checks, since the whole cost of being lost is measured in the distance between the wrong turn and the noticing.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
How long did you keep going before admitting you had gone wrong?
MORE IN TRUTH, ACCOUNTABILITY & SELF-AWARENESS
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