Why become small?

“If you do not change, you can become extinct.” – Spencer Johnson, from Who Moved My Cheese

If you’re not careful, you can become extinct in your own lifetime.  If you’re not careful – if you’re not self-aware of yourself and your world – you will fall behind.  You will lose the capacity to create high value, you will diminish your ability to be relevant to your world.   You will become small.

Why become small?   Why not stay aware of where your world is going?  Why not examine how you’re growing with your world?  Why not see each day as an opportunity to renew and reinvent yourself in some way; to stay relevant to yourself, and to your world?