When Efficiency Becomes a Cage
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Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
Do you feel uneasy in spaces obsessed only with efficiency and optimisation? You’re not alone!
As a society, our addiction to efficiency runs deep — in business, in institutions, even in daily life.
Faster is seen as better. Scaling is seen as success. Business bows to charts and numbers over people or visions; life tracks tasks, not meaning.
The cult of efficiency feels hollow to us Sensitives. When everything becomes about optimisation, something in us resists — because it generally bypasses the very qualities that give work and life meaning.
We sense when the deeper currents are being stripped away.
We feel stifled, suffocated, dragged, constricted, dead.
We instinctively ask: Where is the soul in this?
What’s being sacrificed on the altar of efficiency as the only driver?
It’s not that we don't value movement or growth.
It’s that we ask: What are we rushing past?
What gets left behind?
What do we no longer see — or what are we not meant to see — because of a hidden agenda?
In a world that rewards efficiency and optimisation at any price, your discomfort is a precious asset.
It’s a form of wisdom.
Foster it.
Honour it.
And protect it fiercely from a system that would rather you not feel it at all !