Observation

From time to time, I am hit with this urge to find out what it feels like to be deaf, or something similarly disabled. I would get killed if I were a cat, but such isn't the case, so I can try. I once thought putting force on the mute button while watching TV would do the job. Nope. The very wisdom that sound is just a button away leaves me with more ignorance than ever. I came to conclude that the terror of being deaf comes not from the dysfunction itself but instead from the absence of choice. Sound is to a deaf man as unicorn is to us.

Interesting is the truth that you, or me, can easily create deafness. Homemade deafness, what an idea! But it happens all the time, and in fact, deafness is the default state of ordinary people. Take Vincent for example. Vincent is an undergraduate math major who dreams to practice law. He graduates UG with a 3.5 and 160 LSAT. Truth is, Big Law does not exist for Vincent. V30 Firms, what are they?

We put ourselves into situations where we are left without choice, where greatness becomes unthinkable. This is exactly what should make us tremble with fear: mediocrity.

The problem is, we are run by the system of Why's. Myriad question marks put fence around our possibilities; we routinely doubt and question. We turn into skeptics in times when skepticism is most unwanted and unneeded. We process to be okay with things that are not okay.

Exposure to greatness is of importance. Live for bigger maps, rich of routes and directions. All must be done is to make greatness thinkable, and it will be there.