The dizzying speed of change in our world requires us to react quickly or economically drown. In our technological whirlwind, the maestros are on top of change and stay on top of change.
In the great minds of yore you found a trait called a “river of interest.” There was time – lots of it – to discover a machine or a theory which could change the world. Keeping up with the latest events was localized. Machines and the people were as eminent psychologist William James said:
“Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.”
We now live in a technological world which has rendered James’ idea of “a subservient specie to a privileged few” as an obsolescent one.
The Internet can be a great equalizer, and the maestros have embraced it without skepticism. They knew (and know) what they didn’t know. And what they didn’t know, they learned. And once they learned it, they ascended, rapidly in some cases. They broke their habits and formed new ones which embraced change and thrived on it.
Let’s jump in the river of change and discover who we really are. Undoubtedly we are much more than our limiting beliefs.
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