Leadership Thought of the Day: Getting Lost

Jake Wilder
3 min readJan 11, 2022
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“How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?” asked the pre-Socratic philosopher Meno. It’s something I read years ago in Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost and it’s stuck with me ever since. Amidst our hyper focus on productivity, how do we explore new, unknown ideas and experiences? As Solnit wrote,

“The things we want are…

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Jake Wilder

I don’t know where I’m going. But at least I know how to get there.