S Curves!

Sometime back, Megha was telling me about a concept she had learnt. It was the application of S curves to our lives and work.

Everything that goes up, comes down!

So it's necessary to have multiple S Curves in our lives. Ideally the next S curve would have started and would be on its way up; much before the current S curve would have started dipping.  How does one know when the next S Curve needs to be started? When you start getting disproportionately big results even when you put in negiligible/restricted efforts, it may be a sign that you are currently at the peak of your current S curve. You should start looking at initiating your next S-curve then.

Conceptually, the model appeals to me. There are 2 things in model which strike me as being critical:

• How does one know what next S-curve should be? One would need to have explored and figured out beforehand what options for next S-curve are.
• There might be an emotional attachment to current S-curve. One has to overcome this and dissociate progressively with current S-curve to ensure adequate attention is given to emerging S-curve. Especially, the period when both S-curves are co-existing might be characterized be intense emotional conflicts/dilemmas.

Both things mentioned above are constraints. We need to work with/around them to ensure this model works for us.

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Sourav