The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo. Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow on it. If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. A trail is for one but one has to make it. We can create our own potential.
If you can’t change the status quo, make the status quo change. Great creators don’t necessarily have the deepest expertise but rather seek out the broadest perspectives.
The odds of producing an influential or successful idea are a positive function of the total number of ideas generated. An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. When we learn something new, we don’t go from ‘wrong’ to ‘right.’ Rather, we go from wrong to slightly less wrong. And when we learn something additional, we go from slightly less wrong to slightly less wrong than that and then to even less wrong than that and so on.
We are always in the process of approaching truth and perfection without actually ever reaching truth or perfection. You see what is possible but imitators just see what you have done. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear” -George Addair. It’s good not to follow the herd. Go the other way. If everyone’s going that way, you go this other way. Yeah, you’re gonna stumble. You’re gonna stumble but you’re also gonna stumble upon an idea no one came up with.
To be great is to be misunderstood. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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