What exploring a new city can teach us about leadership

Iwas driving down the avenue, looking for the place where I needed to make a right turn. I’d been in this city for a few weeks and had taken this route to the climbing gym before, but this time was different. It was different because, as I got into the car this evening, I decided not to pull up Waze or Google Maps for the ride. As I was driving and attentively looking at the street signs, bus stops, gas stations, and apartment buildings, I realized that there’s also a bigger difference. Without the reassurance that a chirpy voice from my phone will warn me when I need to prepare for the turn, my attention had changed. I was noticing a lot that I hadn’t noticed previously. Here’s some of what was going through my mind: Okay, the streets are numbered. I know I need to make the turn on the 35th, what am I on now? Oh, that small street had a sign for 21st. If the next is 23rd then I’ll just count them as they go up and I’ll be ready for the turn. Uh oh. The next one was 19th instead. Alright, I know the numbers repeat in different neighborhoods, so I’m probably still some ways off. I’ll look at the numbers again later. Meanwhile, I think there was some sort of a clearing right before the turn. Perhaps a small parking lot? Better watch out for something like that so I don’t miss the turn if I got it wrong about the numbers. [..] I won’t bore you with more of my internal monologue from the time. But hopefully the mere half a minute’s worth of thoughts gives you a sense of the level of detail my attention was capturing. <a href="https://medium.com/@deiwin/what-exploring-a-new-city-can-teach-us-about-leadership-b5165262bce0">Click Here</a>