The two hospitals near me use helicopters for emergencies, so helicopters are flying overhead all the time. They are sleek and fast and perfectly designed for what they do, but I watched one land today. As it got close, as it slowed, it suddenly seemed bulky, awkward and ridiculously heavy.
It made me think of a fish on the sidewalk. In water, in its element, a fish is effective and successful. But take it out of the water, just a little way out of the water, for just a little while, and the fish struggles.
Perhaps one reason so many people seem so unhappy with their careers is that they are not doing the work they are designed to do – they are not doing what they are naturally good at.
"What we must learn to do is invest most of our time every day, every week, in what we do best, and let others do what they do best," says Jack Canfield in The Power of Focus. Otherwise, we are a fish out of water.
