Orbiting The Giant Hairball Essay

My first impression of this book was how creative this read will be. The title says it all about contents this book holds. I assumed I would be “orbiting the giant hairball” when looking it over but when I get into the nitty gritty it will all start to make sense to me. This book captures how I have felt my entire college career due to the giant hairball effect as well as my early professional career. From outside sources constantly telling me what I can and can’t do and how using my mind in different ways won’t get me far because it’s out of the norm. I’ve seen this in my professional career at a job I had several months back. This term has been what I’ve been searching for a while now because it explains perfectly what I experience. Gordon

I’ve never heard of the term he states as “disgusting” of hairball. When I came to think of it, it was the perfect term to describe the effect. More and more strands of hair (policies, restrictions, standards) are added day by day in a continuously growing ball of hair. To get outside of this giant hairball, orbiting, it takes a lot of work. At least the readiness and commitment to get out because if not it can go wrong. I feel as though I have already been subjected inside this ball of hair this early in life. I have been suppressed by teachers and the educational system as well as in the professional world by my bosses. When I worked at Toyota, I definitely felt like I was just a number in their system. They never gave me one opportunity to grow outside their standards because it’s what they knew and it continued to work for them. I learned from Gordon to be patient and go outside of those tangents to find out who you really are. Remain who I am no matter what. If I am told I can’t be me because of they what the work place is, then I shouldn’t want to work for those people. The last important take away from this book is how success is never on the inside of the