Wednesday, November 30, 2011

不知道不会,不代表不可能不可以

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
~ Friedrich Nietzeche

the observation is mostly watching people decide "it" is impossible. because they do not know how to go about it.

this "it" can be any aspect, element and bits of life. and so, because they do not know "how", they declare it undo-able, impossible, fantasies. and mostly appalled looks.

as much as i accept the limits of abilities, geography and science, what grates on my rational mind is that a lot of such limits, to put it mildly, are pretty much self-imposed. in their own minds, by their refusals, and mostly attitudes.

and so, perhaps this is what separates the winners from the crowd, the go-getters from the living-from-day-to-day, the financially stable from the pending disasters.

i have a hypothesis about "the 5 whys" 五个为什么. ask thy self "why" to every reason you give to a question/action and you will get to the primitive motivating source of your self. For example:- Why is money important to you? => Because it is security. Why is is security=> Because I do not enjoy being dependent on others economically. Why do you not enjoy being dependent? .....

So on and so forth. Usually by the 4th or 5th "why", there is a very emotional need at its very core behind the seemingly very innocent question.

So now, i'm wondering about another hypothesis. The-5-hows.
If i follow the same process and keep my nose to the grind, 问自己五个“怎么办”,会走出属于自己的路吗?