The time between the idea and its
implementation is very crucial. When there is too much ‘logic’ loaded on it, enthusiasm
runs out, negative self-talk kicks in, and soon you begin to justify why you couldn’t
do it to the very people you had enthusiastically told your brilliant idea.
Then one day flipping through the TV channels or the pages of the newspaper,
you find someone doing exactly what you had in mind. You come to this point
where, the only claim you have to the fame of the greatest innovations,
inventions and ideas, is that you thought about them first, but then on second
thought, talked yourself out of your own brilliant ideas.
A swimming instructor once
mentioned to me that it is easier to train a child how to swim, than it is to
train an adult. His explanation was very simple; adults think too much about everything;
drowning, embarrassment, being seen by expert swimmers in the same pool as novice,
without remembering that every novel began as novice, and the bulldog was once
a puppy! …but not so children. When you tell a child what to do, they don’t put
much analysis into it, but trusts that it would work, and jump into it, and
especially for the fun of it. This reminded me again of what one coach mentioned.
That most adults suffer from the
Paralysis of Analysis. They over-analyze everything before they try it, and
by the time the analysis results are out, someone else has already done it.
So we shouldn’t think through our
ideas? That is not the spirit of this article, but rather that MOST OF THE
‘THINKING’ WE PUT INTO OUR BRILLIANT IDEAS IS INFLUENCED BY OUR PAST
CONDITIONING (our past failures or other peoples failures, experiences, learned
but never proven theories), ANXIETY AND STRESS AND OR/WORRY ALL OF WHICH ARE
MENTAL STATES THAT NEED TO BE OVERCOME BEFORE WE BEGIN TO MISTAKE THEM FOR LOGIC, then they get in the way of our
living!
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