Tipping Points

We all of us have seminal moments , influences that propel us to take one fork in the road as opposed to another. Seminal moments are what they are often called and often they are subliminal causes we are not always aware of. I was reminded of these by listening to an audible interview by Don Katz, CEO of audibles.com ,interviewing Jane Fonda. Her tipping point for anti war activist involvement was Kent State and the invasion of Cambodia, seemingly small beginnings and innocuous in nature. I am convinced trhese moments are never small and have impact that know not of at the moment of their origin. They awaken us out of the comfort of the ignorance we once had ,and such awakening forever changes us and we are never the same afterwards. In another post I will describe my tipping point(s). One additional fact about them, they are never obvious but subtle ,often unrecognized, and fully develop over a span of time.