“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Every man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.” – Mark Twain

A friend of mine has a saying that I never quite understood, but think I do now. “Be for what is.” Here’s what I think:
There are basically two ways of seeing:
1. the way things ought to be.
2. the way things are.

Do you find yourself moaning about the injustice of it all and wishing that things were different?
Be for what is.

Do you hear things like this? ‘If only my boss liked me better.’ ‘If only I had married someone else.’ ‘If only I had invested in Wal-Mart, Apple or Microsoft back when.’ There’s a little bit of that in all of us. (more…)