Rabbi Glazerson is well-known because he has written
several provocative books on topics in Jewish spirituality. Very connected man. One time he was driving from Sefat to Haifa at night and suddenly found himself re-entering Sefat. Must have taken a wrong turn.
So he turned around back to Sefat, along a road that he knew well, and after five minutes or so once again found himself back in Sefat - wrong turn again!
For the third time he set out for Haifa, this time paying closer attention than before to the road. After ten minutes can you guess what happened? He found himself back in Sefat.
"I guess I'm not meant to go to Haifa tonight," he said, and returned home.
Did this ever happen to you?
Something is not working, but you keep trying the same thing over and over again hoping you'll eventually succeed...
- in your job or
business- in a
relationship- in your attempt to
lose weight- in using some technology
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -
EinsteinAccording to Einstein's definition, if you are like me, you are sometimes insane! How do you fix that?
Here's a rule of thumb that you can try that has worked for me and evidently for Rabbi Glazerson:
three-strikes. If I try something two times and fail, I say, "OK, one last time" and if it doesn't work the third time, I either change the tactics or give up.
But if you decide to abandon that path, don't do so in frustration - say:
I guess it isn't meant to be.
Speaking of three strikes, our friend Adam Pollock alerted us to this marvelous Jewish baseball video:
No comments:
Post a Comment