Unbelievable and nerve-racking: Your role models were just like you
Ever felt your role models were supermen?
That heavens have showered upon them powers you’re deprived of?
Those high-flying humans would have had invisible wings which you don’t have, right?
Wrong.
No one's perfect.
But, for years this shitty idea clouded my worldview, and it incrementally curbed my onward speed.
Oh that I had the belief in the blissful truth that people who I look up to also had their portion of imperfections – you would have been seeing a much more updated version of me.
Because believe it or not, it’s true as hell that our beliefs to our destiny are what frames are to clay.
But if this looks wishy-washy then reading this will sweep off your doubts:
This guy’s belief tore all scientific data –
It’s 1954. experts everywhere are citing a mountain of empirical data to tell you that it’s impossible for a human body to run a 4-minute mile.
Any questions or arguments countering this fact is foolery. What’s decreed is decreed.
But then an unbelievable incident tosses off all that air-filled research to the trashcan.
Roger Bannister runs a mile in 4 minutes. Experts are astounded. Beliefs shattered.
The thrill refuses to drop here.
Someone else, stirring his foot forth, crushes Bannister’s record just in 46 days. Then it becomes an everyday business for those athletes.
Bang…
What creepiness got uncurtained?
Did heavens open their breasts and drenched those runners with electric?
Or did somebody cast a magical spell over them?
Of course not.
The undercover story that got unfolded was…
With Banister forming the record of running a 4-minute mile, others got certain that it’s possible for human to run that fast. Once this presumed impossible feat turned possible, they smashed their mental crutches and did what once was decreed impossible.
You may think that this story is soul-stirring, but how this connects to we believing that our role models were without blemishes?
When we take it that personalities like Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela or Abraham Lincoln were without human failings, and therefore they brought so shattering revolutions, we tell ourselves that they were perfect and we imperfect.
This belief of ours make us think that if something is impossible, then why the deuce try it?
The truth, however, can’t be farther.
I’m halfway through the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi – The Story of My Experiments with Truth.
Turning the pages of his life, what really through a glass of cold water on my face was that even if a person is highly successful, he has his own share of weaknesses and failings.
Bullshit to carry the mediocrity-spun view that personalities who fuelled political revolutions or produced massively popular works were people without blemishes. Such a presumption dissuades us from striving ahead with our real potential holding us back down in our trenches.
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
“For my strength is made perfect in weakness.”
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