We live in a time when the only prediction that holds true is that no prediction will hold true.
Is this a paradox? Not if you have innovative thinking. This knowledge could give you an inherent advantage if you aren’t afraid of change and transformation. If you realize that change is inevitable.
For the ordinary, it amounts to anticipating change and planning a course of action to avoid foreseeable disaster, steering clear of genetic traps, intellectual barricades and social stereotypes.
George Bernard Shaw once observed that all progress depends on the unreasonable man. His argument was that the reasonable man adapts himself to the world, while the unreasonable persists in trying to adapt the world to him; therefore for any change of consequence we must look to the unreasonable man.
Make changes before disasters strike. Don’t just follow tradition blindly. Question the methods and processes of all the things that impact your life. Have the audacity to challenge the most established patterns. Break the mold.
But don’t just stop there. Find ways to improve those methods and processes. Fix things before they break. Don’t assume that you are healthy just because disease is absent. Find ways to improve your health.
Many years ago most people thought that change was more of the same, only better. They expected and welcomed this incremental change. Today we know that in many areas of our lives we cannot guarantee more of the same, be it work or money, peace or freedom, health or happiness, and cannot predict with confidence what will be happening in our lives.
It’s a time for bold beginnings in our lives, for thinking the unlikely and doing the unthinkable. Change is just another word for growth and learning. We can all do it, and enjoy it, if we want to.
Be unreasonable!
