"Deceptive Growth”

It's important to recognize what phase you’re in as far as growth goes.

And particularly when you're looking at something in an early stage, that's early on: it's a start-up of some kind or some kind of idea or new venture.

Typically, you're growing and a lot of things are happening.

You're stretched beyond your natural capacity here, pushing the envelope here, pushing outside of your comfort zone.

Everyone on the team is and things are growing, things are happening as they should be and that's all great.

But it's often imperceptible.

It's often Deceptive.

It's often hard to see the the fruit of this growth in these early stages.

I'm a big fan of Peter Diamandis who's an expert on exponential things and he has his six D's of exponential growth and one of them is the Deceptive phase.

His point is that when something is moving along an exponential curve is when it is doubling at a regular rate.

Let's say the rate of growth for the example is for the processing capacity of a computer chip.

Moore's law says that that processing capacity can double as far as our technological output.

It doubles every year.

Now early on, that doubling was imperceptible.

It went from 0.01 to 0.02 to 0.04 and you're like not really doing anything.

But it's in that Deceptive stage.

You're still doubling.

You're still growing at an awesome rate.

You just don't see the fruit of it yet.

The same thing with these trees when a seed is germinating under the ground.

You don't see it.

You don't know it even when it pops its head out of the ground and is still growing you hardly notice.

It looks like just another little thing in the ground, but it's growing at an absurd rate.

But you have a choice in that Deceptive growth stage.

A lot of people choose to give up because they don't see the fruit yet.

They don't see the outcome yet.

They don't see the dolla dolla bills yet.

And it can be frustrating.

I’ve been there. I get it.

But to give up on something that has the chance to make a dent in the universe.

Is a travesty.

So even when you're in that Deceptive growth stage,

Like we're in right now with our Stealth Mode project,

You have to keep going, you have to persevere, you have to forge on.

Deceptive Growth.

Don't take it for granted.

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