You square by Price Pritchett is basically an instruction manual for taking Quantum leap in your life.
You might
wonder who Price Pritchett is?. well Price Pritchett is a business advisor,
speaker and, Author who specializes in mergers, culture and organization and
change. He is one of the best selling change management authors. In his books and
speech you can find that he explains us an unconventional set of behavior that
will bring breakthrough performance like taking Quantum leaps.
Well he
starts the book with a story of a fly; the fly tries to penetrate through the
glass and make its way through but is unable to do so. It uses every single
ounce of its energy to break through the glass but its efforts are always in
vain and it eventually dies of exhaustion. If, the fly had wondered and see that
there was a door open next to the window then he could not have wasted his
energy and die tragically.
This is
what the author suggests us in doing so, that is looking out for other means
which is not harder and not energy consuming but very strategic.
In this Book he says,
- Quit trying harder
- Think beyond what common sense would allow
- Make your move before you are ready
- Look inside for opportunity.
This book
really amazed me, earlier I used to take a single step at a time but after
reading this book something really changed in me, that is my way of thinking of
how
should I proceed further?
Sharing
one of my experience, I recently took my board exams and to be frank, there was
one subject which I was not confident about, I thought about just getting pass
marks will be sufficient, as you know in exam time you would like to read
everything except your exam subjects, well at that time I came across this book
and I was keen to experiment, I don’t know if it's believable but I seriously
changed my studying method and to my surprise, I got almost full marks!
I swear
to god that my words are true.
Talking
about the book,
It says
ignore conventional ways and I totally agree with it, like using fineness
instead of effort works pretty well.
If you
are trying to climb over the wall, open a door and walk through it. If you are
pushing against the river try going with the flow.
Concept
which author has introduced to us is interesting and it’s practically
applicable but some people may find it rather vague as the author does not really
give us direction or tells us how to apply them. The steps are not given/
explained in detail.
Pritchett
insists that the bigger obstacle to overcoming the odd is, never challenging
them and we must always trust in the power of pursuit.
There is
a topic here in this book is Seek failure
I was
baffled, like why would he say Seek failure while we are taking Quantum leaps
towards success. Well, he says that the Quantum leap demands a willingness to
make mistakes and that we must realize that if we are experiencing difficulty,
problems or pain we probably have aimed too low. We have leveled off in our
growth and the achievement; we probably are far from reaching our limits.
That is
why he insists us to seek failure.
And he
again insist that it may look everything as a failure in the middle but
progress often masquerades as trouble and failure does not mean that you are
defeated, right?
Get
uncomfortable was really something as Quantum leaps jerks you out of your
comfort zone.
When you
take the quantum leap you ride the situation but you don't really control it
all that much in fact the only pay you can control is by:
Knowing where you are going
Continuing the pursuit
Learning from your mistakes
Uneasiness is predictable psychological
reaction when Quantum leap is underway so don't worry if you are uneasy.
The main theme or the main point which writer
wants us to understand is that, we have to make our move before we are ready
for it; bogging down getting as we go forward everything will come to us
eventually. We have to move forward, we should not pause or step down and try
to convince ourselves getting prepared, we just have to take the leap and
whatever it comes, it comes. Getting ready is quite frankly is a stalling tactic
and an act of anxiety a con game you are working on yourself.
‘Look
inside at what pulls at your consciousness for there you will find direction
everything else is in position waiting for you. Just to go make your Quantum
leap’. With
this he finishes the book well this is an amazing book and really very helpful.
Talking about the cons, the book does not give us detailed steps or
instructions and topics could be a little vague I agree and it is not any
research-based as well but this book can really shape your view
in a Quantum way you know, like that you can integrate your success rate and
your work effort you cannot just add up to it but INTEGRATE!
-Prasamsa Pokharel
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