To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: insanity religion challenge convention possessed
Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed’s working hours.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: convention slavery employment employee employer self-employment working-hours
Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: ideas public-opinion abortion convention unconventional sperm
Anyhow, whether undergraduate or shop boy, man or woman, it must come as a shock about the age of twenty—the world of the elderly—thrown up in such black outline upon what we are; upon the reality; the moors and Byron; the sea and the lighthouse; the sheep’s jaw with the yellow teeth in it; upon the obstinate irrepressible conviction which makes youth so intolerably disagreeable—“I am what I am, and intend to be it,” for which there will be no form in the world unless Jacob makes one for himself. The Plumers will try to prevent him from making it. Wells and Shaw and the serious sixpenny weeklies will sit on its head.
Virginia WoolfTags: authenticity struggle convention growing
Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself to be something of an outsider—to the disappointment of his very conventional parents, he no longer believed in God or religion.
(Jane Smiley (2010). The Man Who Invented the Computer)
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I'm convinced that the best solutions are often the ones that are counterintuitive - that challenge conventional thinking - and end in breakthroughs. It is always easier to do things the same old way...why change? To fight this, keep your dissatisfaction index high and break with tradition. Don't be too quick to accept the way things are being done. Question whether there's a better way. Very often you will find that once you make this break from the usual way - and incidentally, this is probably the hardest thing to do—and start on a new track your horizon of new thoughts immediately broadens. New ideas flow in like water. Always keep your interests broad - don't let your mind be stunted by a limited view.
Nathaniel J. WyethTags: science thinking mind creativity ideas satisfaction question convention innovation tradition new-ideas view cleverness solutions scientist counterintuitive limited-view
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