What Drawing A Straight Line Can Teach In Business

What Drawing A Straight Line Can Teach You

Surely you’ve heard people claim, “I can’t even draw a straight line!” It’s usually in response to viewing beautiful artwork. But you don’t have to stand in front of a masterpiece to recognize the value of drawing a straight line. The lessons learned from just trying to draw a straight line are applicable to business as well.

It Requires Discipline

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Achieving proper movement of the hand and a steady pace is one of the hardest things for some people to master. People assume that it’s simple, but upon trying, they realize it’s a lot harder than drawing any other figure, doodle, or even scribble. Making a connection between two points seems easy, but in practice, the number of required steps between can be quite painstaking.

So it is in business. People assume that succeeding in business, that is — moving from idea to billions of sales, is easy without taking into account all the hard work between.

It Requires Focus

Focusing on one end and the other helps steady both the mind and the hand. Both the intention and means are required to connect Point A to Point B, but neither will be successful without the other. Full concentration is a must, and one must carefully plot each measurement to strengthen the process.

So it is in business. Having a clear map of what to do when and where strengthens the clarity required to bring a business’s start to a successful end.

It Requires Determination

Though practice has been said to make for perfection, it’s better to think of practice as determination. Only with determination, that undying refusal to give up, can a straight line be achieved no matter what the length.

And so it is with business. Failures are to be expected and learned from. Failures are to be used as modules of practice in which we learn how to improve things next time. Only with determination, that is, persistent practice, can we draw a straight line from inspiration to actuality.

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