Sometimes, when we're in the valley, we don't always recognize that there is enormous opportunity on the other side of mountains and of fog...things aren't clear, and so we can become confused.
That may be how some of us are feeling, as the enormous changes to the industry, as a result of the post-internet world, and the shift from an agent centric to a consumer centric business model, have affected realtors who have been in the business for some substantial time.
I was interested to read, in a local newspaper, an article that talked about how our brains are "rewired" by our technology. One of the ideas discussed had to do with the ability to do many things at once, and they didn't mean multitasking....to the writer of the article, it seemed that multitasking had to do with jumping from one thing to another and back again, whereas the layering of information was more at a cellular level...we would do many things, though none of them in depth...it was a different way of relating to information.
It seems to me that it's normal to have technology change us, as a people. When Gutenberg invented the printing press, it put a lot of industries (scribes, gold letter people, copiers, etc) out of business, and new ones came into being, requiring new ways to deal with that technology. Two centuries later, it resulted in the Reformation and the Renaissance, and the birth of the individual as the arbiter of knowledge.
In the last century, the changes between 1960 and 2000 were enormous. They paved the way for the latest "shift".
The best thing to do, when caught in the timeline of change, is to "free float"...to be "in the change"...to let it happen, and to remember to keep the peripheral vision exercises going (no tunnel thinking...that's the dinosaur way, and look where that ended!), and allow fresh thought to rise to the top.
So important to let our creative juices flow...anyone can create the pathways of this new world that is "our world".
Definitely entertaining, right?
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