On a family visit to Longleat on Monday there was the perfect illustration of a frustrating problem that has confronted me for over a decade.
Sometimes knowing the direction you want to go is not nearly enough.
Direction is the cornerstone of all navigation, not least natural. Natural navigators are sometimes forced towards a principle of ‘if we head towards our destination we will get there, eventually’.The problem lies in that sometimes even if we know the way we want to head it is not possible to go that way and we are forced to make difficult choices and compromises.
The Longleat maze is an extreme analogy of the challenge. Standing on one of the wooden bridges that give a limited overview of the maze structure it was quite easy to see the direction of our goal. The wooden fort in the centre of the maze was southwest of us,…
