The Song of Significance by Seth Godin

Author:Seth Godin [Godin, Seth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2023-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

71. Where Does the Water Go?

When paddling a canoe, you’ll see little whirlpools as the paddle moves backward and the canoe advances.

So when you push the water back, where does it go?

The answer is not as simple as it seems. The water can’t go backward. It can’t go backward because that would mean that your paddle pushes this water, which pushes that water, which pushes the other water all the way to the shore. Each stroke would have to move fifty thousand pounds of water.

In fact, the water doesn’t go much of anywhere at all.

We move.

The water is a heavy substance, practically a solid mass. We use the water to leverage ourselves and our boat forward.

We don’t change the lake that much. The lake responds to our effort by changing us.

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