Juggling is the art of keeping as many balls in the air as possible without dropping any.
Cybernetics pioneer W. Ross Ashby proposed a law that is now known as Ashby’s law: A system must be at least as complex as the environment it wants to control.
With only two hands to work with, there will always be an upper limit to the number of balls you can juggle at one time. Juggling can be a beautiful thing, but it also consumes a majority of your attention, and you can’t juggle all of the time.
Are you juggling too many priorities? Are you having trouble keeping all of them on track? How many balls can you keep in the air at one time without dropping any? Can you figure out your capacity and find a way to limit the number of things that command your attention?
See also: Conflict, Mess, Fog, Decision tree, Coordinates, 2×2 matrix.
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