Mutual Investment, in Love and Business

To grow, we must both invest and be invested in.

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One of the less discussed keys to growth is found in the dynamics of mutual investment. When we find ourselves in an unestablished, fledgling position, we require someone to take a chance on us. For example, before your first job, you had no experience, impeding your ability to get work, and yet someone had to hire you so you could actually get some experience. There are ways around this paradoxical first career hurdle: embellishing a rèsumè is chief among them. If a situation arises wherein one has the luxury of availing themselves of an honest course of action, it is likely to be marked by another trade-off. Namely, as we’re not such prime stock, we might find our opening with another individual or institution that isn’t currently the cream of the crop either. And so an unestablished worker finds themselves at an unestablished company.

This relationship between the less desirable elements is crucial and the focus of this article. The necessities of circumstance require those in weaker positions to take chances on one another. We make an opening for each other. In love, as in business, this interdependence is often the key to growth. We know that we are ourselves unestablished, or untested, or inexperienced, or damaged, meaning that we’re unlikely to be a match for a…