Surpass the Plateau: Tips

We reach a point, particularly in our professional lives, where the learning has reached its limit. The job has become an automatic function with certain margins of expansion. Surpassing such plateaus is possible, the first step to achieve this is to recognize these plateaus.

Remember & Review

Remember the origin of your personal inquiry, your personal pursuit, your curiosity and desire to grow and explore. You had all of these elements wondering within you at the moment where you were the most pure and free from professional obligation. What inspired you the most? What was the core of your desire? What were your thoughts about your purpose back then and What are you thoughts on your purpose now?

I often look back at work that I did during my undergraduate years and I stumble back into excitement and wonder because I find that I was excellent at just being immersed in whatever the inquiry was at that moment. I tell myself, I don't write half as good as that anymore. And the more I think of it, the reasons why this happens become clearer and clearer. Once we step out of the lab and into the manufacturing sector- we make things, we no longer create things. We make things that have their own blueprint, their own outlines and regulations. We are no longer creating pure things, things inspired and supported by the latest state of the art knowledge.

I digress, the point being that it will take time to sit and review what stops us. If we are stuck on a plateau of absolute margins? or are stuck in a place without bounds, and we have somehow created a mental wall of fear to put our feet in the mud and get dirty again, and create again.

There is at least a bounty of hope in the latter, we can grow where there is space to grow. If we stay in a place that restricts us from growing, the choice is ours.

Explore Options

Reaching a plateau forces us to explore options, that is if we are the type to not conform to the norm. Explore ideas, options, other alternatives, and do so measurably. The science to it lies in activity. Remain active in your pursuit and work to excel in those one or two areas that will propel you to the next level. I am talking in abstract terms here, but you understand the point of all of this. The plateau is useful to stand a ladder on,

Look to Pioneers

My biggest inspiration, personally, comes from people I admire and look up to. Mentors, teachers, leaders, friends, they are the inspiration I look to because they remind me that in this world of pressure and expectation, the road is not isolated, on the contrary it is laid down by the masters that have walked through it. These masters are very often all around us- they are veterans of not life, but rather veterans of difficult situations and far from caving in, they have remained constant and have persevered through the stormy nights of life. If you don't have any of these close to you, look them up on google, they are all over our history books, all over our popular media, they are all over.

Create with Knowledge

Nothing, absolutely nothing that we have learned has come to us for free, everything you know can be transformed into a valuable piece of something. The key in this step is to learn how to use every part and create cohesiveness. A carpenter is that much better of a carpenter if he is prepared, that is if he is read, if he knows the current materials on demand, if he understands the value of connections and the business that can be built by using not just people skills, but current and relevant ways to spread the word to any demographic alike. This is a collection of skills that is hard to master but the brain has no plateaus, and there are no bounds to creativity, use knowledge to create.