Consider a bit of perspective the next time you face a
challenge at work (perhaps you’re in the middle of one right now). The New Horizons
space probe completed its closest approach to Pluto this morning after
travelling for over nine years across three billion miles. New Horizons arrived
at Pluto one minute ahead of schedule, travelling through its target window in
space which measured approximately 60 by 90 kilometers – “the equivalent of a commercial airliner arriving no more off target
than the width of a tennis ball”.
Unless you actually work at NASA, or are a brain surgeon,
you’re not working with those sorts of constraints or margin of error. Step
back, take a deep breath and deal with your problem in a thoughtful, intelligent
manner. What’s the worst that could happen? In reality, most of the time, it’s
a bruised ego.
To reach Pluto, New Horizons is the fastest space probe ever
made – travelling at over 30,000 MPH. At that speed, impacting a particle the
size of a grain of rice could incapacitate the probe. It’s unlikely the same
could be said about your project.
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