Brendan Kane uses a George Bernard Shaw quote to argue that people who change the future are the unreasonable ones who refuse to adapt to a broken world. They're hypersensitive to problems others tolerate, unable to unsee them once noticed, and driven to solve what keeps them awake.
Here's how you know someone will change the future, like they're literally destined to go down in history. And this is a sharp perspective from George Bernard Shaw, who once wrote, "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." Basically what this means is the people who change the future are usually the people who look difficult in the present. Not because they're trying to be rebellious. Because something in them refuses to make peace with a world that feels broken. They get bothered by problems other people have learned to tolerate. They notice the little things, the annoying little problems nobody has time to solve. And once they see it, they can't unsee it. That's what makes them different. They're not trying to sound smart. They're trying to solve the thing that won't leave them alone. And that's the real sign someone will change the future. They don't fit neatly into the world as it is because some part of them already belongs to the world that's coming.
