I know nothing, but here is what I know.
The spiral is a law of the universe. It seems like the fingerprint of my life, the same story, different pants, different town.
It can be upsetting at first, when you feel like you are repeating the same lesson, or working through the same issues again. I learned to stay observant instead of berating myself for getting in a bad situation. Instead, I said, ‘let’s observe this with new eyes. If this is so obvious of something I should have avoided, then surely if I am observant while getting out of it, I can catch all the red flags this time, so I can really see.’
What I learned was there were signs and strokes of intuitive hits but they were all clouded by someone way more skilled at lying than I could detect, like mastery level. What I got out of it, ‘no wonder this is so hard.’ They are not just smiling and lying. They are literally studying you to create the illusion of the scenario of safety and ‘the life’ that you want. I also learned that those intuitive hits must never be ignored.
Go home. Go to bed. Don’t go back. Some people you need to safely and quietly back away from. How you feel after being with them is a very good signal.
The spiral to me means that the more involved you get into one area, one subject, the more opportunity you have to get to a higher level than beginner. In the higher levels, you can get ahead of your day. You can anticipate your needs, your customer’s needs. You know what they say they want, and what they really want. As you understand their world, you can start to see why they make their choices, what affects those choices. This is the gold. You are now going up the spiral, repeating the same day but learning more every time, unless you label it as boring. If you label it as boring and don’t move beyond that, it will be boring.
Beyond that, you start to understand the patterns of the world. How is society effecting your customer, your product? And up it goes. how are these things tied in together? Repeat, repeat, repeat but don’t miss seeing. Eventually something changes, what causes it? Ex smokers, for example, will be quit for 20 years, totally moved on. A parent dies, or something else awful, this might cause them to be unprepared for the heartbreak they are feeling. This is the more common reason I have seen that they start again, some kind of stress.
Eventually the spiral starts making sense, the patterns start emerging. You can’t really explain it but you know what is effecting what you have spent a lifetime learning about. And so we become tied together. Our different fields. Some effects are big and some are small. Some take years to develop but are like the power of #, an exponent. An exponentially rising problem.
The longer in a field you can observe patterns. The more you can learn important signs. Someone who is brand new in a field or a job, might be more distracted by learning the new system, than some important signs of a stroke, or problems at home.
I find this interesting because I would have never seen this had I quit and restarted something else. It is important that I had the experience of quitting something and restarting something and realizing, Everywhere you go, there you are. Both experiences were important for me to see the value of learning about the same thing over and over and always learning.