Change, The New Norm

Unless we have a burning desire to search for new answers, we won't have room to accept a new insight, let a new paradigm. But typically, a paradigm shift starts with a crisis, an occurrence that causes our safe and sound world - our traditional way of explaining things - to simply fall to pieces.

If you believe that change will be too costly, too upsetting, too painful, too frightening, or too insecure, then stay where you are. Maintain your current structure, expand it, and work from within it.

You can be satisfied with life, think that the world is the way it should be and nothing needs to be changed - just adapt yourselves to the world. And you can lead a comfortable life and ‘settle’.

No problem with that. Everyone has a right to lead a life the way they want.

But then there are also people who are not satisfied with the life they are leading. They think their lives and the world in general can be a better place. They want to change the world. The problem though, is that changing the world is not an easy thing. So any rational person in the process gives up because people around them don’t readily accept change.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

~ George Bernard Shaw

Despite all the hardships, despite all the criticism, despite all the problems, they refuse to give up.

The unreasonable people are not satisfied with being settled. They want to bring something new to the world. And hence they make the world progress.

So most of the progress in the world does depend on the people who are a little bit crazy, little less satisfied, little bit genius, and lest I forget, little bit unreasonable.

What are you doing to make the world a better place?