We all want to contribute to a level where we can’t really measure our contribution.
But to get there it’s important to decide how we’re measuring…
If I sell ice cream cones and I might believe that the number of cones sold equals my level of contribution…but what about the anticipation in the car on the way to the ice cream shop, what about the smile after the first bite, the conversation at the cafe, the satisfying sugar high on the way home…those things are hard to measure but they’re a real (and easy to overlook) contribution of the ice cream shop…to the point where it’s impossible to know the extent of the contribution.
And obviously with music…it’s easy to measure monthly listeners and streams but what about what those songs mean to those people? Did it lift their spirit when they listened? With their spirt lifted were they more kind and caring to the people around them?
If we only pay attention to the easy to measure things, then we’ll always have a measurement (even if its a false one) of our contribution…and ultimately we don’t want to be able to fully measure.
