The Role Of Perception

 

Do you ever realize that every time a challenge shows up in life, it is followed by a series of dark times through lament, sorrow and resourcefulness? Well this is so because our sensual man is subject to the external happenings of the environment he dwells and he can do nothing but react. The challenge with being reactionary is that there will be no action if all is well. That is why many times inventions and innovations come after we have been tried. The reaction however is fueled by a perception that decodes the external happening as a threat.

Perception will eventually lead to a reaction whether good or bad, beneficial or not, progressive or regressive depending on the strength of spirit of the receiver of the stimuli whose perception is elicited. The existence of challenges is a necessary evil otherwise, we would still be cave men. Because there exist challenges, solutions are derived and these have run the course of human civilization as we know it.

The advancement and success of the human race this far and the corresponding certainty of the existence of man is hinged upon those whose perceptions are right. A perception is only right if it seeks to overcome and outlive the challenge faced at a given time. Men with such perceptions win, control, and run the world. Such outlive their lives and influence the world for centuries or even millenniums. Socrates, Einstein, Newton, Edison, Watson and Crick, the list is endless are men who saw challenges as doors and not as barriers.

One doesn’t need to be faced with a million dollar challenge to think he can change the world, the gist is a problem solving mindset that one has to cultivate in oneself. This also goes down to parenthood. The world is looking for solutions not justifications of what has gone wrong. Of course wrong is not ignored but the real deal is how can we put it right?

The relevance of a man in a dispensation is the ability of that man to draw from within and quench the thirst of others without. This can be achieved through a change of mindset primarily. It doesn’t matter whence thou comest from but it matters what you can do to change. The human brain is one of the most underused organs, so, we are supposed to do better that we are doing if we are to secure our future and be relevant in all seasons.

No man can find true purpose without solving a problem for every purpose is to the benefit of others primarily but in the form of overcoming a challenge. One has to be superhuman to solve the problem of other people. This means that your destiny might be in the problems around you. You don’t need to look so far. Just look at the thirst without, draw from within and quench that thirst. This is the key to an immortal relevance.

Men that live their lives as thus are men that not only leave an inheritance for their children but their children’s children. Like I always say, believe in he who put you here on earth because you won among the billion sperm cells that gushed out that fateful day. You were chosen because all nature agreed that you can. So arise and take your place. The foundations of the earth are out of course because of unfulfilled and unexplored potentials that lie within frustrated men.

It is so bad to live so small yet the world is waiting for you to unleash your potential that all tides may beat in your direction and sail you to your destiny. The most painful bit of the story is that as one chooses to live small, he not only frustrates himself but also the destiny of others that are hinged on his for that is what will always be. Wake up, believe. Blessings.

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