# Building Requires Destruction By:: [[Ross Jackson]] 2025-02-12 To do anything, something must give way. This is most visible when something is torn down to build something else. Old homes are razed to make way for a new one. Same with office buildings and shopping malls. But even when an old structure doesn’t exist, the land is transformed as the building is made. This works in reverse as well. Mega malls are being destroyed, and nature is reclaiming its place. Hobbyists can see this dynamic play out on a micro-scale. To make something of wood, a tree must be cut down. Other materials require a change in elemental chemistry. In short, building involves destruction. Organizations spend little time focused on the destruction taking place. It is a directed creative activity. Often, the destruction is inside the individual doing the work. Of course, the fatigue comes from the grind of work. This is typical. There could be a deeper form of destruction occurring. Often, work requires one to destroy one’s passion. Few people are engaged in what they want to be doing. As time progresses, there is less connection with one’s passion. Building a career requires destruction, just as everything else. The question is what is being destroyed in the process. One can only determine if what one is doing is “worth it” when one compares it to some alternative course of action. Look at what is being built. Look at what has been destroyed. All is well if one would make this tradeoff when the values are stated explicitly. Suppose one does not develop a strategy to redefine the exchange. Just because all buildings require destruction does not mean the ratio between these elements is fixed. Success is to be achieved in the negation between creation and destruction. #### Related Items [[Creative]] [[Building]] [[Destruction]] [[Organization]] [[Cycles]] [[Value]] [[Success]]