No Lack of Good Ideas

Since the dawning of this age of convenience and technology, the human race has been programmed to”play it safe.” We have been taught through the smack on our hand by parents, the failing mark on a school test, the firing of that first post college job, the awards given to those that put in the most effort, as well as those that don’t, the phrases, “just get a good job,” “just be happy,” ”just get through the week,” to go through life doing the right thing, not making mistakes, not failing, and you will overall “be fine.”

We have been taught to underachieve, under excel, under commit, under think, under perform, and be under impressive.

This begs the question, what does playing it safe get you? Does playing it safe cultivate a passionate working life? Does playing it safe allow you to experience your passions to the fullness of your growth? Does playing it safe, and ensuring an overflow of abundant resources (happiness, quality time, money), for family, loved ones, and space to just be? When has playing it safe ever birthed alignment of mind, body, and soul for the human experience?

Playing it safe is mediocrity. It is average. It is analyzing a list of potential problems, and avoiding the risk, and outcome of failure, in order to stay comfortable. Playing it safe is wanting to try Kemetic Yoga, but never doing it for the risk of feeling frustrated in a new skill, not as being as flexible as the rest of the class, driving a mile further than your local yoga class, and making more excuses that keep you nestled in, “this is okay.”

So who are the players that don’t play it safe? What do their lives look like? The people that take risks towards the fullness of life are the people throughout history who have understood THERE IS NO FINITE AMOUNT OF ENERGY IN THE WORLD, but there is a finite amount of energy you will spend in this current lifetime. The Saint Peter Gordons, The Mohammeds, The Rosa Parkses, The Ghandis, The Teslas, The Rumis, The Farrakhans, The Michelle Obamas.

If there needs to be example of what playing it safe does not get you, research the lives of these fulfillment-ists.

Why would someone opt out of the joy of living their best lives to play it safe? People play it safe, because unconsciously (among other things) they believe that there is a shortage of ways to succeed. Thus a shortage of good ideas

As a child, kids are given flashcards with 20 different professions, and told to choose. Doctor, lawyer, astronaut, president, firefighter, librarian, etc. We are taught to think in the structure that already exists, and if you fail at what already exists, there will be nothing left for you.

Not only is this school of thought (unfortunately held by most of the communicating world at the moment) not true, our current paradigm is a clear example of people who realized there are no shortages of good ideas, and keep pushing at failures. Electric cars, peaceful protests, meatless substitutes, 12 year old self-made billionaires, the creation of social media, celebrities, digital nomads, revolutionaries, etc. What you have been taught, and what is actually right in front of you as the truth, are two very different things. There is no shortage of good ideas, so keep failing.

The definition of failure is a lack of success/An unsuccessful person, enterprise, or things/The omission of expected or required action/a lack or deficiency of a desirable quality.

The last definition of failure is why most play it safe, believe energy is finite, and live at average potential; because most have not gotten over the correlation of failure with being undesirable. And when one feels undesired, emotions range from disappointment, frustration, lack of self-worth, lack of value, depression, anger, loss of hope, not being good enough.

Children are the most unsuccessful beings on the planet. They fail every single second of every single day. So why are kids not playing it safe? Why do babies continue to try to crawl, walk, then run, when failure is absolutely inevitable? Because children have not been programmed to operate in limited beliefs, that there is a limited amount of energy they can exert to one thing, or a limited amount of good ideas that they may have.

So why as adults, have we adopted the mindset to play it safe, that energy is finite, that there is a shortage of good ideas? Release this paradigm. There is no shortage of good ideas, fail and fail and fail, constantly operating just on the outside of your comfort zone.

What happens when two people who are of the belief that there are no shortages of good ideas? They are deemed innovators, geniuses, talented, virtuosos, words to describe them are excellent, intelligent, knowledgeable, extraordinary.

People that understand that there is no shortage of good ideas are constantly living on the edge of their comfort zone, and pushing the status quo of what they think they can do, and what others think they can do.