Sometimes it's simply time to move on because your life is progressing, or otherwise, at a different pace or into another direction.
Still, even as "life is progressing," says Lloyd, "it is cycling back to the beginning".
Life was progressing too slowly for me; things weren't changing enough; a girlfriend wasn't the solution to all my problems as I had envisaged; and the once-upon-a-time dream job I worked in was showing its toxic roots.
With this approach, we more than doubled the battery life, which is progress.
One of our heroes at Princeton in the past, the embryologist Edwin Grant Conklin, said in a speech in 1925, "Our strongest social instincts are for service; the joy of life is in progress; the desire of all men is for immortality through their work".
Life is about progress, not accomplishment or failure.
On one level, the single biggest villain in my life is technological progress.
But progress is progress.
Regardless, progress is progress.
It is not only increasingly essential, but it is a status symbol as well, signaling aspiration -- and that your life is one of progress and (hoped for) success.
