Every now and then you’ll hear someone use the expression, “He’s just looking for trouble.” Of all the statements you’ll ever hear, that one is probably the most counter-intuitive. Almost everyone I know avoids trouble like the plague. In fact, typically people exert the most effort in the pursuit of ease and comfort, not trouble or adversity. Yet, for some reason, we tend to grow the most during times of difficulty and adversity.
History shows that not everyone responds well to new ideas. Yet, successful people recognize that ideas and innovation are the great commodities of our day. Everything great happening in the world today started as an idea in someone’s mind. And our ability to think and work in new ways will be the springboard to an amazing future. Every person that wants to excel will encourage the birth and trial of new ideas.
Paul Harvey has said, “You can tell when you’re on the road to success. It’s uphill all the way.” One young man with a burning desire to draw understood the uphill climb to success. He went from newspaper to newspaper trying to sell his cartoons. But each editor turned down his cartoon drawings and many suggested he had no talent and might want to consider another line of work. He pressed on, determined to make his dream a reality. He wanted to draw, and draw he would.
Edwin Land did not just “decide” to invent the Polaroid camera. He got the idea because his daughter needed her pictures right away. She knew the image was on the film in the camera, and wondered why she had to wait for the film to be developed at a store. Land reasoned that the delay caused by film processing must create a problem for others as well. It took great scientific know-how to bring the Polaroid from an idea to reality, but the main step he took was to see the problem as an opportunity.
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