We grow up learning about people, icons that are role
models and an inspiration. Scientists, politicians, activists,
explorers, artists, business people, religious leaders. Awakening, rebel or
visionary spirits of all kinds, full of accomplishments to admire.
At the same time – oh the paradox – we learn how to choose a
job that will pay the rent, how to study what will guarantee us this job, what
to buy, what to have, how to live, think, value. We learn to repress our own
vision and aspirations, our passions, dreams and desires just to make sure we
will be able to adjust, adapt and survive.
Yet most of these figures, who we learn about in our
schools, universities and families, who we read about in magazines, whose
quotes we stumble upon every now and then and whose biographies we buy, had one thing in common:
They did the opposite of what we are being taught and followed their vision and passion.
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