Yeah, both start with a burst—like seedlings sprouting fast when everything’s cheap, or a startup shooting up when you hit product‑market fit. Then the growth slows as resources thin, and you hit a plateau that forces you to shift from raw scaling to optimizing efficiency. In forests that’s the carrying capacity of soil and light; in businesses that’s market saturation, regulation, and internal bandwidth. The hidden rhythm is the need to trade raw expansion for structural resilience, so you don’t just grow, you sustain and diversify.