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Curiosity may have killed the cat

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The trouble with ‘this is how it’s done’ is it might not have worked or it works for a few but not all.

Often it works only for the people who tell us that’s how the world should be.

So by default, we more often look to see how something has always been done.

It is like a comfort blanket for the same results.

Instead of always looking in the rearview mirror to see what’s been done, we could look forward to see if we can do something different, something new. Then we can rightly expect some different outcomes and continue to test and try again.

That is exactly what took the human race from the plains of Africa to where we are now.

What has happened now is the mass world has made everything average, most people are merely cogs in the machine unlikely to question, as much of the human race are brainwashed into believing ‘this is how it’s done’ is the only way.

Curiosity might have killed the cat but always doing the same will kill the human race.

Sometimes things turn out different

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Before we start something, we have an expectation of how things will turn out.

We imagine in our mind what the outcome will be, we then think about how our life will be once that outcome has been achieved.

Often, though when you commence something, it turns out quite different to how we anticipated the outcome. Sometimes straight away, and sometimes it can take a while to vary.

The fact that things turn out differently is good, as more often than not, our expectations tend to be lower rather than higher. Equally, if things always turned out how we expected it would make life dull, and given our tendency to be less positive as a default, we would probably not start anything.

That is how many of us can end up in life. We are conditioned to fear the worst, we are almost taught this nonsense that ‘if you fear the worst, then anything will be a bonus’.

So maybe, we can learn to start off expecting the best, even if it turns out worse than we expected, there will always be learning and therefore it was always worth starting something.

Different is good, and whatever way things turn out, it is always worth starting something.