This is for the very many people working away in the background, at awesome talents…seemingly “poor’, waiting, for the right time.
“Our heroes are only truly heroic if they suffer crushing defeat — then come back from it,” Sonnenfeld says. And again, the comparisons to Edison, Ford, Disney apply: Each suffered failures before their ultimate triumphs. abc.news.go.com article on Steve Jobs.
Kwai Chang Caine: When a man has nothing, it is then he is most able to raise himself up.
Broke does not equal “poor”.
J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement. Author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. From Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.
Imagine, your head teems with vividly captivating imagery and spectacularly “rich” graphics. You’re regularly transported to another realm…virtually. OUT – OF - THIS – WORLD.
Intriguing, spellbinding. It’s awesome. It’s fun.
While being privy to such fascinating and constant action you plod along and do your best to endure the every-day mundane. You really want to get people in on the fun and excitement to which you are transported everyday.
Dare you? More importantly…can you?
The timing may be all wrong. You have to bide your time, hang in there and wait for the right time before you can put it all together.
Even if on welfare is such a mind and minsdset, enveloped in such entertaining “richness”, ever really ‘poor’? Not a chance.
Broke? Absolutely. Broke can and may well happen while “the right time” takes time to come around.
But poor is when you can “see” no way out and remain hopelessely trapped inside your abject circumstances, even, in your imaginings.
For sure being broke is no fun, but broke can be fixed. A poor mindset…not so easily.
