The Slow Burn of Wisdom

Developing good judgement is key to making good decisions. However, this requires time. You need to go through business cycles and circumstances a few times before you become strong.

These situations sometimes happen once or twice per decade, which makes it difficult to form your character and improve your judgement fast enough to be able to effectively put it to play early-on in your career.

You can come across very smart and well-prepared young professionals that are impressive. And you can see this because they are intelligent, they know the technical stuff, they know the talk.

What you cannot see is if they have the character and judgement required. With time, you can start to sense if under different settings decision making is directionally right, but you’ll need to wait until big decisions need to be made.

This is a common source of frustration in developmental conversations. You need to think how you could accelerate this process. One non-regret route is volunteering for initiatives and exposing yourself to challenges more than you do.

Yes, it’s hard work and painful. Anything of value is. Hard choices today, easier life tomorrow.