- Mental images focusing on growth among Parable of the Plants and Botanical Metaphors.
- Outcomes are not created by human action alone, but by the passage of time.
- You don’t grow twice as fast by working twice as hard.
- Waiting is necessary
- Productivity does not improve linearly with resource consolidation
- Double the fertilizer doesn’t yield double the harvest.
- It is foolish to try to get twice the fruit from one fruit tree
- That labor could be better spent on growing new fruit trees.
- It takes several years from the time fruit trees are planted until they are ready to bear fruit.
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