Today is August 6 and the Navigate the Chaos question to consider is “How often do you approach, or go over, the edge?”
People who navigate the chaos have learned that true personal and professional growth involves going over the edge.
That is the only way to truly understand where the edge is.
Pioneer of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson went over the edge several times in his life. Thompson noted "The Edge...there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
At 18 he was jailed for robbery and was released after promising to join the Air Force. While in the military he became a sports editor and later went to work in New York City where he was fired for kicking a vending machine.
While covering the Kentucky Derby he went on a weeklong bender and developed severe writer’s block.
He handed his scrawled notes to his editor and the result was “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved” and hailed as a landmark in journalism.
One of his editors dubbed the new style gonzo for its wild, careening system. Thompson would go on to publish Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream.
Thompson went over the edge and created a new style of writing.
How often do you approach, or go over, the edge?