The Ditch Digger

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Ted Knight’s statement, meant as a derogatory dismissal, is actually a prophetic commentary on what I like to call the “Entropy of Endeavor.” The concept being that not everyone can achieve the same successes in the same fields. The world requires a distribution of endeavors to achieve progress. People often navigate towards efforts that are aligned with their interests, but more importantly have easier paths of resistance. It’s like water finding the unoccupied spaces when poured into a bowl of small pebbles. And those paths are based on our capabilities and limitations skill-wise as well as the saturation of those paths by others. There is an even distribution of careers and efforts all of which are noble from the garbage collector to the doctor, from the CEO to fry cook. The problem comes when we spend effort to achieve success in endeavors where many others are, our capabilities don't align, and success is harder to come by. We struggle and we toil in areas that are saturated with others’ efforts, when in reality happiness and success can be found in other pursuits. We spend effort digging in areas in which success is difficult to achieve.

What is your ditch?

So what?! So let's dance!!

Song of the Day
In honor of finding an easier path to success, and in dancing like Rondey Dangerfield everytime I hear this song, the song of the day is Journey's "Anyway You Want It."