Day #753 - Invisibility

Archways

For reasons that will become clear (another day) I’m building a wall. And an archway. In this I am fortunate to know the physics, and the role of the keystone to lock the whole thing together.

First, I build the form - the ‘inside’ of the arch, if you like.

Then over this, resting upon it, I lay the bricks for the arch itself (meaning that what I end up facing is a solid wall…).

Finally, when the arch is complete, and the final keystone in place, I remove the first structure that I build, the form. It’s served it’s purpose and is now no longer needed: the arch is self supporting, and once it is gone, there is no trace of it ever having been there. And I can walk through the archway.

Use your sixty seconds today to consider this in terms of your leadership: when is your role to provide structure and support, and be invisible in the final reckoning, and when is your role to stay in place, like the keystone, holding the whole thing up?

And how do you know? I think we sometimes find it hard to view ourselves, in all our importance, as the thing that should be invisible, or disappear.