Adam Churchwell

Most of the time, we tend to think things are going in the right direction. We get up, head to work, handle what we need to handle. Somewhere in between we eat a bite or two, maybe sneak in a little exercise, and end the day watching something or scrolling our phones. Unlike getting lost on the road, you don’t really notice when you go off course from your original goal. Because it happens over time, it doesn’t feel like a mistake or a wrong turn. Most of the time it just feels like you’re...

You don’t really notice when you’re not headed where you wanted to go… because each turn you take still feels like you’re on the road. There’s no moment where it feels like you made a wrong decision. No clear point where things went off course. It just feels like you kept going. and in turn, you were going nowhere. I used to think that if I just stayed in motion, things would work out. As long as I was busy, productive, and moving forward, I assumed I was headed in the right direction. But...

We don’t question what we don’t know is questionable. It sounds like a riddle, but it is actually the quiet, invisible trap most of us have been living in since we were kids. Think back to your early days. A lot of us were told, in one way or another, to just figure it out. When there was guidance, it usually sounded like a variation of the same theme: don’t rely on anyone else. Stand on your own two feet. And that may be entirely true for some things. You absolutely need to know how to tie...