But does the band ever want to get back together? Sure maybe it worked for a reunion gig where everyone rejoiced at the good old days. But could they do it again? Do they want to do it again? Bands do get back together, they do succeed when they get back together, but only when they are willing to try something new, only when they are willing to let go of what they accomplished before…
In video games, there are many side-quests to getting to your primary quest. They might give you XP (experience) to help in your primary quest (i.e., unit testing, additional coding, etc, etc). We sometimes discard them because – “Bah, when am I going to use this” – but then when we complete the primary quest, we begin the work to go back and clean up our side quests and think – “huh, this would have…
They want to know how they are doing. They want to know what they are doing wrong. They want to know where they need to get better. They want to know what to fix. So they crave it, in any form, they want it, all the time – feedback, not validation, not comments, but feedback – how do I get better? Tell me.
Alone, in the game of a barrel of monkeys, each monkey can accomplish nothing, just lie there flat on the ground waiting for a pickup. Together, they can hold onto each other, lift each other up, and support one another, achieving what neither could do alone. Never doubt what the monkeys can do.
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