Jainism has a concept called anekāntavāda — the doctrine of many-sidedness — which holds that any complex object can only be truly described by cycling through multiple, apparently contradictory perspectives. No single vantage point captures the whole. The Jain logicians weren't making a relativist point; they were making a structural one: the object has many real facets, and your position in space determines which ones you can see. Career growth has the same topology. The thing blocking most talented people isn't lack of effort or visibility — it's that they've been viewing their own trajectory from a single fixed coordinate: the one their current role assigns them. The people who accelerate tend to do something specific: they periodically step into a radically different observational position — a cross-functional project, a peer outside their industry, a role that makes them a beginner again — not to gather 'diverse perspectives' in the vague self-help sense, but to reveal facets of their own capability that are literally invisible from where they currently stand. Anekāntavāda suggests the path forward isn't working harder from your current vantage point. It's moving.

What is the most different observational position — role, industry, relationship, project — you've occupied in the last two years, and what did you actually see from there that you couldn't see before?

Drawing from Jain Epistemology (Anekāntavāda) — Mahāvīra / Jain logical tradition (Syādvāda school)