Move the gate
On the way out from a concert, there was a gate with a sliding door everyone had to walk through.
The door was open about a quarter of the way, just enough for one — maybe two — people to get through.
With thousands of people exiting, it didn’t take long for people to crowd around, and the gate became a bottleneck.
It took 10 minutes before somebody decided to do what hundreds of people before them didn’t think or choose to do, which is to slide the gate to make more space.
True story.
There are three phenotypes here:
- People who think nothing of the bottleneck.
- People who see the bottleneck and choose to do nothing about it, are hoping someone else will do something about it, or do not think they can do anything about it.
- People who see the gate and move it.
There’s a good chance you run into some form of the gate every day.
Some are easier to move than others — the point, the thing to remind yourself of, is that you can move them.
You can be the kind of person who chooses to move the gate.
