as arthur c clarke said the only way to
find the limits of the possible is to go
beyond them into the impossible
the world is most people are going to
live it is so tightly defined is so
limited by their narrow perspective that
they're never able to shake out of that
to really shape something and build the
world not as it is but the way that they
want to see it they're allowing
themselves to be hemmed in by what they
see other people doing by the bricks
that have been laid before them but it
really is our ability as a species to
adapt and to go somewhere new that
defines us
and so focusing our attention on getting
beyond that is a critical thing and as
Socrates himself said the secret to
change is to focus not on fighting the
old but on building the new to put all
of your energy into creating something
new not to resist what's come before you
and that's where so many people spend
their time there is so much comfort and
what's come before there is so much
safety in the bricks that people have
laid before you that you're unable to
see that if you're willing to step
beyond that if you're willing to define
something for yourself if you're willing
to learn if you're willing to challenge
your own assumptions if you're willing
to challenge the things that you believe
if you're willing to push beyond the
comforts that an entirely new world
awaits you and we live in this radically
new environment where information is
available to us all with a click of a
mouse with a couple moments of surfing
that you can encounter a vast universe
of ideology that is totally foreign to
you that is totally new to you that are
going to become the things with which
you build something new they're going to
be the things that allow you to create a
universe that up until this moment
simply has not existed
but how many people do that how many
people really take the time to educate
themselves? To shake off the yoke of
everything that's come before and have
the guts and the courage to dive into
ideology that runs counter to them?
That shakes up their entire belief system
that forces them to question everything.
But in that questioning, in not fighting
everything that's come before and
instead imagining an entirely new world
We can literally build that world
Socrates has another quote, "Employ your
time in improving yourself by other
men's writing, so that you shall gain
easily what others have labored hard for.
that's the world you live in that's the
era that is now this transition that's
happened from the time that we had the
printing press until the internet came
along and until right now today where we
live in a world where people are trying
to put so much information out there all
you have to do is be willing to look
beyond the safe confines of the world
that you've constructed for you the
world that your parents handed to you
the world that society tells you is the
way that it is was and always will be
once you can look beyond that once you
can get to understanding that you
you can control the fabric of your world
by altering your belief systems by
reaching out and looking at what other
people have given their lives to obtain
that information to take it in to not be
beholden to Dogma but instead be willing
to accept that ideas are not only tools
they're weapons and the things that you
can use to terraform to change your own
mind and once you've changed your mind
then you can change the world
you