This probably-off-the-cuff statement by @vgr, as happens often, is a potentially profound point with implications for #career, #creativity, and #change so here are some thoughts that it triggered in me... 1/https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1037904069619118080 …
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In India at least, r u t? (sometimes without the spaces) is a standard form of pinging someone on chat messenger windows to ask, "Are you there?" 2/
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So rut is the Resistance demon in yet another disguise where it filters out any RUT? pings from new possibilities, new future yous, new horizons that could be explored, or someone asking an uncomfortable question that would spur change 3/
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So dramatic moves with announcement of intention, ceremonial swearing off of old habits, and a big visible change enables your rut to quickly adapt to be your transport to a new, new "same old" rut 4/
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The transition period lulls you into complacently believing that you have escaped the rut 5/
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Real rut-escape does not look like escape. It involves stealthy scraping with a tiny stone carving tool with any progress hidden by a jaded Rita Hayworth poster 6/
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How to "sneak away" and attain successful transformation? Maybe with tiny sustained new habits, below-the-radar new explorations, pursuing the new without craving to make it look new or showing off...? Over to
@vgr to elaborate, refute, debunk, complicate and simplify :-) 7/71 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread
I have no idea. If I did I’d be out of this rut myself 
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