Vision, Starbucks and Faster Delivery

Arthur Schopenhauer once wrote that all truth passes through three stages: first, it gets ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as self-evident. It's wonderfully true. (I laughed at that idea at first (!))

In this new century I've added a step zero:

Truth must be written in less than 140 characters so that the average person will read or understand it - only then can you expect the next 3. Holding true to a truth that might lead to a new vision - long enough - is a lonely and bleak place. It requires tenacity and nerves of steel. Of course there is no other way. Schopenhauer rightly observes. So we had better get used to it.

To be obsessive, relentless and persistent enough to go through this, to deliver, people with ideas and vision need ingenuity, massive resolve, very thick skin and caffeine. Oh and an iron will.

Ideas - visions – anything worth pursuing cannot be fought except by better ideas, visions or pursuits. The battle consists - not of opposing but of exposing; not of presenting but of surfacing; not of dictating but co-creating; not of denouncing but of disproving; not of evading but of boldly proclaiming - a full and consistent framework of alternatives.

My worry? Not enough people care enough to engage in the wrestle. There is incredible effort required for true change. This is long distance stuff. Sweat and toil and the lives of many people involved in the adoption of any new vision or idea. In addition we have to make education more about thinking and being and less about passing a test. Leading has to much much more about listening and less about telling. Society has to be much more about society and less about political systems or centralised services.

For every one of these big issues, and there are millions, we need new visions and new truths.  We also need more agents for change to carry this disruption.

This means:

• Significantly more effort to write and convey real truths and visions clearly
• Gird up to get through Schopenhauers process more rapidly
• Think in ways differently than we’ve been conditioned to do
• Question everything in the first place.
• Take no prisoners.
  

This is rebellion. This requires different leaders, creative people - far crazier ways to be and think. We need new Malcolm McLarens and a lot more caffeine.

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