Beyond the Tracks
Excellence at following paths becomes incompetence at making them.
Institutional systems train us to master predetermined routes—discipline in meeting expectations, skill at external validation, comfort with structured progress. Yet these competencies become profound liabilities when structures disappear. We mistake training for education, not realising that learning to follow paths systematically disables our capacity to create them. The transition from school to life reveals this paradox: the more successful you've been at staying on tracks, the more helpless you become when tracks end. Every solution contains the seeds of the next problem. What serves you magnificently within constraints betrays you completely beyond them.