The Trailmap Method: How to See the Options You’ve Been Overlooking (Part 1)

A simple exercise for making the many options available to you visible, and actionable.

I keep coming back to this illustration.

A bird sits inside a cage. The bars curve overhead, forming a dome. From where the bird is standing, it thinks it is trapped. But if it were to simply turn around, it would see something obvious: the sides of the cage are completely open, and it could fly out at any moment.

The cage isn’t trapping the bird. The ass…