We Are Born Into Brilliance #leadership #business #productivity

3 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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A short motivational monologue (YouTube) by Clegg reflecting on how childhood curiosity and bold dreams are narrowed by social conditioning that prizes "being reasonable." The speaker argues that this pressure suppresses passion and originality, then cites George Bernard Shaw's idea that progress depends on the "unreasonable" person who adapts the world to himself.

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When we are kids, we want. We want to be astronauts, we want to be billionaires, we want to be history makers. We want to do all our dreams. And we stand in awe and wonder. And we're full of curiosity and we're loving and we're passionate, we're strong. We're not afraid to be ourselves. But as we leave the perfection of childhood, the hypnosis and the brainwashing begins. Our well intentioned parents say, oh, you want to be an astronaut? You want to start a business when you grow up, you want to paint like Jean Michel?
Be reasonable. And George Bernard Shaw said it better than I ever could. He said, the reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in adapting the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.