“All Truth Passes through three stages:
First it is Ridiculed,
Second; it is violently opposed,
Third; it is accepted as being self evident.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
What is self-evident is not yet.
The “early adapters” see it, but no one else.
Tag: History
Rosa Parks Was Not, Was She?
Rosa Parks was not out to win a popularity contest. Was she?
She also was not the first to refuse to give up her bus seat for a white man. But thank goodness she did on December 1, 1955. She was 42.
- Where did her courage come from?
- Why did she demonstrate it?
- Did she have a plan?
- What was she prepared to give up?
- What did she think she’d gain?
- Was she scared?
Rosa Parks is one of my heros, inspiring me to use courage for the right reasons. So today I commit to asking the same questions.
And, by the way, it’s not a popularity contest. Courage rarely makes you popular until years later.
It’s The Worst I’ve Seen
My friend is a small business owner. He’s been in business for over 30 years. Yesterday he told me, “This is the worst I’ve seen it”.
No one is coming into his store. He has gotten creative and started, for the first time ever, going out looking for business. If business won’t come to him, he’s going to go to it.
I congratulated him on being successful for so long, and mentioned I started an LLC in January, and the odds are (overwhelmingly) stacked against me. In fact the odds are stacked against anyone starting a (small) business.
History and statistics don’t lie.
What to do?
Figure it out. Failure is not an option.
History and statistics do not lie.