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Of Crabs and People
Crab Theory - Climb Out of the Bucket
Picture a bucket of live crabs: whenever one crab attempts to escape the bucket by climbing out of it, the others reach up and pull it back down. The result, of course, is that no crab succeeds in escaping the bucket.
Despite the fact that they could all easily climb out, they are more concerned with pulling each other down to remain at the same level.
What's the difference between humans and crabs? Not much.
I think it's almost become a rite of passage to success that as you "climb the ladder" so to speak, people take shots at you. I think it's amazing. And it's kind of cool that I can have people form opinions - good or bad - of me based on an article or a blog entry, or (as is usually the case) three sentences in an article.
So for all the up and coming entrepreneurs who are now being "bad mouthed", congratulations on climbing the ladder.
"First they ignore you,
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
And then you win"
-Gandhi.
So where do you fall on this continuum? Are you actively finding ways to climb out of the bucket?
Or are you dragging others back down?
Cheers,
Nate
Comments for This Entry
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Great analogy!
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I read your entire blog in one seating. Great stuff.
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Rick 6:29pm Sep 28, 2010