If you believe in a certain ideal with all your heart, and put your body and soul to accomplish it, it is certainly a strong possibility that you might accomplish it.
On the other hand, if you don't even think something is possible, why would you put any considerable investment into it? With little to no investment, how likely is it that you will actually make it happen? This is how significant our way of thinking is.
The problem we often face is that we don't believe our dream is possible because of discouraging circumstances. Yet consider how many times in history people have surpassed what was deemed 'possible' by the contemporary thinking of their time? From the first airplane, to landing on the Moon, to Copernicus' theory, to the light bulb, innovative people have constantly gone beyond self-imposed mental restrictions that were limiting humanity's development in that time.
The motivating factor that lifted these leaders above their less creative colleagues was usually a passionate desire to benefit the larger society and world.
So do not pay too much attention to the existing circumstances. Focus on your aspiration with optimism and a passion to benefit humanity. Yet also back up that optimism and altruism with hard work and the dedication needed to overcome the challenges you will inevitably face.
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And people always enter a false dichotomy of success and failure, but effort is never truly wasted. For instance, MLK's success was not his own, but the culmination of all the people who fought for civil rights over the centuries, even if those previous attempts were "failures".
ReplyDeleteGood point. As long as we strive for great dreams, whether we reach them or not, those dreams will actually live on by the next generation who takes ownership of them or by the people we influence on the way. This is why we should never underestimate the power of faith.
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