I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
—Abraham Lincoln
Why Should You?
WIP means work-in-progress, the state of a product that is not yet finished. Every food plant I’ve visited has WIP: Imagine warm liquid chocolate in a tank waiting for its turn to go to the molding line to become a solid chocolate bar. Once raw materials are processed and transformed, they become a finished product (a wrapped chocolate bar) ready to sit on a shelf and be sold to eager—in this case, hungry—consumers. Finished food products have expiration dates.
Being WIP means being a nonstop learner, both professionally and personally: You are not done transforming yourself, you are not a finished product yet, ...
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