The Peter Principle : The Art of Being promoted into Oblivion
The Peter Principle Photo Credz: sketchplanations.com A Peter Principle Reflection They say we rise until we break. Not by grand design, nor malicious hand but by a thousand tiny nods of approval, by promotions mistaken for victories, by a system rewards what is easy to see over what is essential to know. The Peter Principle the quiet, almost polite tragedy of being elevated to a rung too high. To a place where competence becomes a memory, and daily life feels like treading water with shoes made of stone. We mistake potential for permeance. We assume yesterday's excellence will alchemize into tomorrow's mastery. But sometimes the ladder leans against the wrong wall, and the higher we climb, the further we drift from the terrain we once knew by heart. The tragedy isn't in the failing, failure, after all, is a teacher. The tragedy is in the forgetting: forgetting what made us thrive, forgetting the ground where our talents first bloom...
