We start to accept things as they are; we accept them as our fate, or fortune. The Inquisitiveness is a basic habit of an active mind and once we restrict our mind from being inquisitive, or we start restricting the mind to bug us and distract us from the usual proceedings, we start quenching the powers of an active mind.
When all of the contemporary scientists were busy in searching for the solution of the complexity of a geocentric outer world, Galileo was able to question against the premises of Earth being at the centre of solar system, how could he suggest that the earth is not at centre while the sun is? He wasn’t observing the motion of Earth, yet the sun was moving every day above his head.
How could have Newton found the principle of Gravity if he had not let the simple question of “Why apple falls on Earth?” to strike in his mind?
This is not all about the scientific realms. An active mind can do wonders in any segment of life.
Almost every Indian wanted to fight for their freedom against the British rule. Yet he was Mahatma Gandhi alone who dared to adopt a new means to revolt.
Have you ever wonder how could Gandhi grasp the essence of Natural Rights and support them to such a stern extent?
Thinking is an important habit of an active mind and we all do think. Yet, the difference in the thinking of an active mind and ours is that an active mind thinks with an aim to create, we often fail to do so.
It is very important to make castles in air. The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated. Napoleon Hill explained the importance of thinking in extremely precise manner as “The basic principle is that whatever your mind can imagine... it can create”.
It sounds so true, without making a castle in thin air, you cannot draw it on paper and without drawing it on paper you cannot construct it on earth while using bricks and wood.
Once you start visualizing about an issue, a problem, you will start facing the debates going on in between the various perceptions emerging in your mind. It happens with all of us, yet not all of us are able to attain the proper profit of this ability to think.
Often we ignore those perceptions, thinking, that seems not to be in relevance with the existing norms. Rather than checking for the rationality of existing norms, we prefer to discard the newly evolving strange thinking in our mind. Gradually, we get into this habit and ultimately, we start losing our capacity to visualize.Galileo was able to point out the heliocentric nature of solar system because he was able to give importance to his thinking more than the existing norms. He was inquisitive.
Newton was not the only one who noticed the fall of an apple. Yet, he was inquisitive and opens enough for the emerging thoughts that engulfed his mind. When he visualized those thoughts, he reached to the conclusion of some strange heavenly power that is attributed to the earth, we call it gravitation. He was not taught anything about it. Yet he was able to visualize.
Gandhi was able to understand the true power of the natural rights of a human, and when he moved on to practice his natural rights, he was convinced that no law no government can restrict him from establishing those rational natural rights, because he had visualized them, they were perfect.Every person who succeeds in making a new path towards progress uses this brilliant power of us human, we can think, we can activate our mind.
Dhiru Bhai Ambani visualized affordable phones for every Indian, was it possible in his time? He visualized, and paved the path to achieve that vision.
None other than Irfan Alam visualized using the rickshaws as a source of advertising revenues; he was able to do because he could think about it. Much before convincing the rickshaw pullers and the bankers to lend money to those rickshaw pullers, he had to convince his mind that it is possible.
