Tim Bursch

Have you ever been sailing? It’s awesome. I’ve been to the Apostle Islands twice. Amazing.

One thing that I learned was you have to be attentive to the wind. You watch the water and the sky for where the wind is going. You listen for what angle you’re going into the wind. That whole sailing-directly-into-the-wind-thing still puzzles me. But it makes complete sense too. It seems like we went faster sailing at a slight edge into the wind.

What about resistance in life and work? It’s hard to move towards and yet it might be the best path.

In his new book, Linchpin, Seth Godin says to use resistance as a weather vane:

“When you feel the resistance, the stall, the fear, the pull, you know you’re onto something. Whichever way the wind of resistance is coming from, that’s the way to head–directly into the resistance.” (131)

Are you being attentive to the wind? Is it something to head towards?

Tags: linchpin, resistance