I have my box.
It’s a comfy sort of box.
It’s a protect me from the storm sort of box.
It’s a cozy box even if it is a little cramped.
And it doesn’t have a view.
Okay, I hate my little box, but I stay there because outside is more than a little scary.
People are always saying, “Think out of the box”.
It wasn’t until last Tuesday I heard, “Forget the box. There is no box.”
Damn straight.
I was lucky enough to attend Ads24 Food for Thought 2018 event. It wasn’t only brilliant and eye-opening, but it forced me to evaluate my life and whether safety and boredom are really an adequate substitute for danger and excitement. I realise that I may have got too big for my box.
Between Dawie Roodt, Chief Economist for the Efficient Group, Prof. Nick Binedell, and scenario planner, Clem Sunter, my (usually goldfishlike) attention was caught in a web.
My box blew to smithereens.
Things are changing, our world is moving back to a pure economics, supply and demand model.
That the way we’ve been doing things like giving away our power to banks and governments and career politicians is short sighted and short lived.
For the first time I saw Donald Trump, not as sign of the idiocy of the human race, but as global movement against career politics. A stand against bureaucracy. Maybe, he isn’t the right face, but he sure as hell is shaking things up.
It’s time to create your own job, not rely on someone else to find a box to fit you into.
It’s time for an Armageddon, a paradigm shift.
Either you reach our grab it and ride that wave with sheer adrenaline or you drown.
The Blurred Line 