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What does it mean?
Encourages riding the momentum of change and maintaining personal independence.
In plain terms
Go with the flow of change and stay free from control.
What can you take from it?
Embrace change and remain independent.

Where it applies

  • career shifts
  • political change
  • personal growth

Putting it to work

  • stay independent
  • go with change
  • take control

Questions to consider

  • What change are you facing?
  • How independent are you?

Another view

It overlooks that some external forces cannot be controlled.

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