If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

Peter F. Drucker
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The saying, "If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old," is a very simple way of putting it. When something is old, it's not necessarily bad. It might be worn out, maybe broken in some way, or simply outdated by the time it was put into use. But when you stop using something old, it doesn't mean that you're throwing it away.

Instead, you're just looking for a better way of doing the same thing in a different way. For example, if you want to read a book about love, but find that most of the books are too long or too detailed for your taste, then you have to find one that's short and not so detailed so that you can read it in one sitting.

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