Growth divides into two kinds. One proceeds gradually, adjusting to its environment as the environment adjusts to it. The other is inner-directed and outwardly oblivious, and consumes its surroundings and then itself. The difference is between respecting constraints and denying that they exist.

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  It's inner-directed, and hence outwardly oblivious. It resists cultivation, setting its own direction, pace, and purpose. Anticipating no obstacles, it makes no compromises. Like an unchecked predator, an ineradicable weed, or a metastasizing cancer, it fails to see where it's going until it's too late. It sequentially consumes its surroundings, and ultimately itself

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  allowing adjustments to environments as environments adjust to whatever's new. Skillful growers can shape this process. Cultivation, for them, is like navigation for Plutarch's steersmen, the simultan

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