“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ~ George Bernard Shaw Do you want to succeed in today’s extremely noisy and confusing world? Then be unreasonable and don’t compete. I’m being quite sincere. Think about the word “competition.” It’s from the Latin “competere,” which means “seeking or striving together.”
It certainly does, Aaron. That said, Simone Weil wrote, "Risk is an essential need of the soul. The absence of risk produces a kind of boredom which paralyses in a different way from fear, but almost as much."
Self-imposed risk, and the resultant anxiety and inevitable pain, is what, in fact, creates a soul.
It certainly does, Aaron. That said, Simone Weil wrote, "Risk is an essential need of the soul. The absence of risk produces a kind of boredom which paralyses in a different way from fear, but almost as much."
Self-imposed risk, and the resultant anxiety and inevitable pain, is what, in fact, creates a soul.
Sometimes it hurts so very much to be unreasonable. Very, very much.