Visionaries and Skeptics

This morning I received a comment on my last post about the Secret from another blogger, Aaron Potts at Today is that Day. Aaron has a really great blog. It is positive and uplifting and it is obvious that he believes as I do that our thoughts become our lives.

So he has this post “The Top 3 Law of Attraction Secrets-Especially for Non-believers”. It was a great post very well written but I made the mistake of clicking on some links that he had in there for some skeptics who are writing long dissertations on why the Law of Attraction is just a bunch of hooey. Ugh! The one post I clicked on the guy had only watched 20 minutes of the Secret because apparently he could not waste his $4.95 to watch such hogwash.

I must say that I have a hard time with skeptics. I really do. I believe that we should approach life and every facet of life with an open mind and an open heart.

Skeptics do not change the world.

Believers and Dreamers and Visionaries change the world.

Seems like I’m into examples lately so I’ll just name a few…..

On May 6, 1954 something happened in the world that most people said could never be accomplished because of course, it was impossible.
A young athlete named Roger Bannister ran a mile in less than 4 minutes. 4 minutes was the apparent “drop dead” rate for running a mile previous to Roger’s feat. Now a 4-minute mile is commonplace.

There is an urban legend that has been making the rounds for years. I know that it is an urban legend because I checked it out. Apparently it never really happened but the story works for this purpose anyway. The legend goes that back in the early 1900’s the president of the U.S. Patent office advised that the Patent office should be closed down because of course, everything of value that was ever going to be invented had already been invented. Apparently the guy was a “Skeptic”. It may be just a myth but when it is told the skeptic is seen as a shortsighted, closed-minded and foolish idiot.

Just recently in Dreams, I wrote about how the business experts told Ray Croc, the founder of McDonalds how it was impossible to make any money selling hamburgers. The magnitude of the scope of just how wrong those skeptics were is mind-boggling as McDonalds has made billions upon multiplying billions of dollars selling hamburgers.

You know it was not too very long ago that computers were about the size of a small house. The skeptics said that a “computer on every desktop” was impossible. I’m betting since you are reading this on a computer you are grateful that Bill Gates was a Visionary rather than a skeptic.

So how many of the skeptics in this world made a difference? Achieved anything of import? Went down in history? I can’t think of any. If you can, please comment. (Comment anyway, I love comments!)

The world belongs to the Visionaries. Anyone can be a skeptic.

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This post is included in Josh Bickford’s Reach for MagnificenceBlog Carnival for March 6, 2007.