The visionary has strong power in forgetfulness. Not in the sense of being a scatterbrain. His memory is very well indeed. What is meant is he has the ability to forget a great deal that MUST be forgotten. The masses of minds are fixed on what is and what has been done. Fixed on great precedence rather than great progress. To surpass or even mention the possibility of what can be done brings great ridicule from limited minds living on the greatness of the past with very little thinking for expansion of future. They forget that what was accomplished yesterday is history. It is no more. The child that is born begins to grow and expand in all aspects of life the second of his/her birth. No one may stop it. No one may change it. And we should not dwell in the fact that the innocent baby we fell in love with yesterday is today a "troubling" teen for tomorrow that phase may be gone and greatness surpassing birth, troubles, happy times and all may be brought forth from that child. What was of that child before does not change, but no longer matters as well, great or faulty. So it is with advancements in all things.
The "book read" intellects of the World typically criticize and many times genuinely dislike many of the innovators of new worldly things. Old thinking minds successful as they may be in their late years, body declining, argue with other like minds on TV and in the "Upper" social circle of what is being done "now-a-days." It is not a matter of what worked "then" ... it's about making something new "now". So many are too busy living in the past OR in what someone else has done. Who has done it the best. Even though any of us who failed the schooling of history can undoubtedly know that nothing done years ago is as far advanced as what is done today. Be it the building of buildings, technology, or even something as the physical being of man. This is not to take away from the beauty or accomplishments of yesterday. As many of the accomplishments paved and inspired the way for today, and many of them can still be seen today in original form or advanced form, just as the child who has grown to such magnificent planes.
The ones who bring greatness are the ones who take the inspiration of yesterday and make it into themselves today. They may study and admire for a time ... then forget it with their thought on what will be and no longer on what was. This is a simple yet seemingly daunting task of mind that is a prerequisite for truly high forms of success.
To use the example I commonly use, who of us have watched Football on Sunday? I have heard it numerous times from numerous announcers, coaches and players. When speaking of the quarterback they say what?
"He HAS to have short term memory!" "He has to have, almost, amnesia." "He's gotta shake it off and forget what happened last play!" ... etc, etc. Why?
If he dwells in the interception he may miss the fact that he just figured out how the safety is playing on the opposing defense and in doing so not make proper adjustments to be successful on the next drive. He may be thinking so much about the interception instead of a winning drive that he repeats only what has already happened instead of what is new to happen. Or perhaps it was not an interception and he scored. His mind is locked in on what has been working all game instead of what is going to work better currently. He is content in his success with no desire to change what is now history. What is often the result in this case? An interception instead of another touchdown. Because it is often the one who seems to be failing or "lacking" that has most desire and focus on change for the better while the successful one is content in his success thinking it will always work just as it did at birth. That is why often the ones seemingly with "nothing to lose" become the most successful. The desire, the passion, the thought of being superior pours from every pore in their being. In either case, the success ALWAYS depends upon a power to "forget". To forget, be it the greatness of yesterday, or the failure of yesterday and replace it with a thought of growth, superior knowledge and execution or wisdom.
To do what no one has done and in many cases even had courage enough to say out loud, is to go against what masses of minds believe can be done. It takes courage unbound. But, rest assured if you are thinking of attempting such a matter ... there are more who are behind you than you may think. There are more who have forgotten yesterday than you may think. More who are just as tired as you of the things "old minds" are so content in. They may not speak it out loud ... Hell, they may even criticize you while secretly thinking of your idea and it's success because of a lack of courage in them to face the criticism of the current culture. Make no mistake, no thought may begin to be materialized until there is enough silent demand for such a thought. Or in other words, until many minds are not only thinking of such a thing, but truly believe such a thing may be true and exist/come forth. As all supply must have demand in the material world, it is no different in the mental.
Great men of yesterday were in past times considered to be crazy, irrational and other negative terms we like to use. They all faced criticism and doubt. They had mental and physical abuse sent their ways in droves often times and they summoned not only the strength to ward it off, but to overcome it. As well it's documented in many instances it payed a toll on mind and thus body. We refer to men not who simply copied or improved some one else's work. We refer to innovators. To visionaries. To men "ahead of their time". Who were concerned with what everyone else was doing about as much as nature is concerned with whether you or I think it should rain today or not. As much as the Sun is concerned with whether we think it should shine less than it is. Minds that were concerned very little with precedence even when that precedence was set by their very mind. They knew that it had nothing to with them or the man next to them. With what was "known" and "understood" thus comfortable to the masses. They knew the greatness that came yesterday from they or any others was but a stepping stone to greater success. At the peak of their accomplishments I can promise us all they were thinking about what was going to be done today to improve tomorrow with a forgetful mind of what they did yesterday.
The Innovating Bruce Lee once wrote:
"I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me."
Of the named Martial Art he is credited with innovating: "If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from "this" or from "that," then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it."
So we may forget who did it, what it was called, or what it was yesterday, as today it is something more, perhaps improved upon or replaced by someone different, called something else. What I write today may be worth nothing today, something tomorrow, and but an infant manuscript to myself and others in 20 more revolutions of the Earth around the Sun. So it is with everything, we forget the good to remember the better. We empty the cup of stale water so it may be filled with fresh. I suggest anything that does not bring joy in mind is not worth remembering at all.
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