Being flexible and adaptable is destroying your progress.

“Be flexible! Adapt or die!” – Bad Guru.

It’s very easy to take these things at face value and think it sounds like good advice. The problem is that this is incomplete advice. When should you flex? At what point should you adapt?

If you are too adaptable, it’s the same thing as “wishy washy.” You change your mind, your goals, your target customer constantly. All under the guise that you’re doing yourself a favor. You’re not.

It’s much easier to get what you want specfically than it is to say something like, “I’m fine with anything. I’m flexible.”

It’s best to be rigid with what you want. And it’s best to be flexible on how you get there. – TruthCake

That’s the correct and full statement. If you are flexible with your goals and how you get there, you’re too flexible and you’re not making any progress. Because it’s easy for someone to make no progress at all just call it adapting to the standard of achieving nothing.

When’s the last time you thought you were doing the right thing by being flexible but it actually ended up hurting you as opposed to helping you?