Art of the Pivot

That is the thing about pivots. They don't end. They just keep coming.

It is not a personality trait that allows you to accelerate innovation, spot trends before others do, or think differently in a world in which everyone is thinking the same thing. It is an economic asset.

Here's the truth: people who appear to have made a sudden leap had been quietly preparing for it for years. They just didn't know it.

Here's the quiet truth of every solo career, every freelance pivot, every reinvention: if you wait for permission from someone else, you will be waiting a long time.

The flaw is the asset, the scar is the proof, the mistake is what makes the reality real.

It's a paradox, actually. The thing that got you here is the same thing that can make you blind to what's coming next.