When information is received by reading, observation, or hearing, all you have accomplished is learning something that already exists. Newton may have seen many of apples fall, but one caused him to see something he had not with the others. Newtonian physics was born. What if every apple that fell was dismissed as their predecessors?
Forward-thinking is seeing something new. Challenging yourself to birth new ideas into reality.
Many students graduate only knowing what the four corners of the pages of their textbooks contain. (previous apples) Never seeing more. Never questioning and challenging the materials they receive. Only to accept it on blind faith. Never seeing the moon. Just the apples of yesterday.
As a result, our country has become academically stagnant. We need forward thinkers. People that will challenge their teachers and professors. Those that will have the courage to see what has not been seen. Dream what has not been dreamed. Say what has not been spoken.
The apples of yesterday carried the seed that would give birth to the tree that would produce Newton’s Apple. Maybe what you are reading, studying, observing will birth your own Newtonian Apple.
Newton observed the apple fall in correlation to the moon. The moon reflects the light of the sun and brings a speck of light into darkness.
Maybe you are the moon or one of your educators, or something in your environment: Reflecting the light of knowledge back into the darkness of ignorance.
Look at all that had to work together before that day a single apple caught Newton’s eye. There had to be soil, water, light, nutrients, and preservation (the tree to be allowed to grow. Could have been uprooted, chopped down, or destroyed). All of these been occurring for thousands of years. Until a forward thinker observed an ordinary event in an extraordinary way.
Aspire to be a forward thinker.
You are crucial in the birth of new ideas.
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