“ENERGY AND PERSISTANCE CONQUER ALL THINGS.”
-Ben Franklin
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| Everglades, Florida |
The abstraction that there is no such thing as a new idea, great idea,
or an idea that triumphs over all preexisting ideas left me in revolution. How
could this be? Is that not what separates the great thinkers, artists, creatives,
and business savvy elites from the rest of us?
No.
Life must come from preexisting life, biogenesis. But had the father of
biogenesis, Louis Pasteur, accepted this concept as the same underlying force
that pushed his discovery to fruition? This
argument arises more often than not on the metaphysical side of an argument,
but I am not taking this out of the concrete. We are discussing epistemology,
ideas from ideas. Where else have we seen this argument before?
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| Eastern Brown Pelican (Pelicanus occidentalis) Everglades, Florida |
Life from life requires a very simple transfer of energy. The energy
that fuels the very physiological processes that sustain my wellbeing at one
point sustained another living organism. With that line of transfer always
tracing back to the primary producers, our photosynthetic organisms. These
organisms do not consume another living entity to fuel their growth, but rather
harness nonliving organic and inorganic sources of energies. These essential photosynthetic
organisms produce NO new energy, they simply craft a form that has metabolic
value from another source that otherwise would be deemed impractical. A living demonstration
of the law of conservation.
Remember, our ideas come from
other ideas. Someone has had the very same thoughts you are having now. The statistical
likelihood that you could string together a sentence or idea that no one had
already previously synthesized seems like a shot in the dark. With the
exponential growth and ever increasing number of human individuals currently
pacing around this planet, clearly someone out there is sharing the very
thoughts streaming across your “unique” brain. Interpose our psycho-epistemological
intuition, and then there really is NO hope of creating a new idea. But that is
our realization, my revolution.
The ideas, action plans,
schematics, step-by-step plans, blue prints, maps, graphs, charts, musical
notes, designs, and motivation are out there for you to find.
We all want to change, improve, and
motivate ourselves to pursue our dreams and conquer our personal quest. The
energy to do so is there along with the “how”, you simply need to find the
sources that will best fit your transcription. The best ideas are ideas that
see the light of day. Your idea might not be new, but that is what we are
working with. People have already done what you are trying to do, look to them
for guidance and advance what they have already done. Let cooperation be the
artistic style you use to blend the colorful strategies used by many to do whatever
it is you want to do.
Look to those that have traveled or
who travel in the direction you wish to take your personal journey. Take a look at an example of these two individuals and their ideas. Their ideas share a common direction and together they are nourishing one another’s energies to make their ideas happen. It is not their ideas that are so unique but rather their ability to “do” that holds the lesson to be learned. How you choose to use their motivation, determination, and persistence is up to you.