emo-ammo

You could say that a lot of the things we do, they're not grounded on thought but run almost exclusively on emotions.

Trends and fashions, for example. Sometimes the trend appears rational, sometimes not, but when a trend blows up and gets adopted by the masses, you can be sure that its success owes a lot to emotions: to fit in with peers, to be seen as a trend-setter, etc; these feelings act as influential motivators.

For people with agendas to push, to be vulcan, that is to act exclusively on intellect and rationality, is to behave in a manner alien to the people of earth.

As the cliche goes, you cannot force someone to love you, so you attempt persuasion. To love something, is to have a feeling inside of you, burning from your core across your entire being, is very different from knowing the benefits and advantages of an action.

In other words, it is not something you can debate with your mind and superior intellect, but instead is something that needs to be inspired, either by an act, or speech, or presence.

And when the audience has strong inertia away from your intended outcome, you would need a clear ringing stimulus if you were to have the slightest chance of getting your preferred responses.

simply decide

faced with difficulty, we sometimes offer people excuses.

But we also offer those same excuses, and maybe more, to ourselves.

We blame the world, god, the universe instead of rolling our sleeves and doing the hard work of finding our way out of those difficulties.

One day, you'll run out of excuses to give out, even to yourself.

It'll be very sad if that's the only person left on that day to hear them

there is a solution to everything except death

I highly recommend Scott Belsky's Making Ideas Happen to everyone who's ever had a thought pop up in their head but didn't know how to translate that idea into reality.

there will be people who say the book only repeats things that are already common sense, things like planning on paper, thinking up action steps,etc; ignore them. I've done a little bit of organising and I found the book illuminating. It's filled with practical advice and provides a logical, but more importantly 'doable', structure for tackling your next big idea

personally I love an execution more than the original ideas themselves
there's conflict in making something happen, maybe even tears. You dream up great things, but you end up in interesting, and real, places when you work on your ideas

come to think of it, I think projects are abandoned, or set aside; they never fail. If you can find a problem, you can find a solution, unless you're dead

as long as you continue to do stuff, and I can't emphasise the importance of 'doing' enough, more and more possibilities and solutions will appear in front of you

who knows? You might solve that impossible one yet