Achieving the Impossible
How to shatter limiting beliefs and access your true potential
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788–1860)
I am willing to bet that at some point in your life you have already achieved the impossible.
How am I so sure?
One simple reason: the concept of impossibility tends to be both subjective and malleable.
If you were sent back in time (I know, that’s “impossible”, but humor me) a mere 125 years, and told someone you encountered that during your lifetime you had traveled in an “airplane” and that this kind of thing was routine where you come from, you would probably be dismissed as a nutcase.
Human flight, not so long ago, was widely considered “impossible.”
Go back around 400 years — not even a perceptible blink in geologic time — and try explaining to the powers that be that it is a provable fact that the earth revolves around the sun, and not the other way around, and you might very well be putting your life in jeopardy.
Or, if you’re a Gen Xer like myself (or older), just imagine your childhood self’s…
