The Unreasonable Man or Woman....

There you go again, Dien! Tempting me to remember fondly one of personal favorite articles.....when you wrote this Shaw quote....I was taken back to last summer when I saw the movie, Chicken Run.

Have you seen it? Mel Gibson's voice is in it (its animated). I went grudgingly, I thought it was a silly way to spend 4.50 for the bargain matinee.....and when I came out I realized that my reasonableness might have kept me from becoming inspired.....

Here is what I saw.....

"Just forget it. There's a one in a million chance we will EVER get
out of this place!" Thus speaks the voice of conventional wisdom.

"Then we still have a chance" speaks inspiration from the depth of
one soul.

The speaking soul is Ginger: a most surprising hero in the form of
the lead Chicken in the movie "Chicken Run". Ginger had a vision.
Every chicken in her coop would be freed. Safe from the possibility
of slaughter. They would not have to be worried about producing mass
quantities of eggs. No longer would they have to stay within the realms of their
fenced in, dirt floored existence. Her vision was for the entire
community. Not just herself. Every chicken.

Her goal appeared impossible. Larger than life. Her previous
attempts were valiant. At times inspired. Nonetheless, they
remained unsuccessful. Stacks of errors in seas of trials. To the
average thinker the conventional wisdom rang true.

Thankfully, Ginger held fast to her vision. Just as many
inspirational leaders before her she drew people to her cause. Her
fellow "cellmates" aligned themselves with her cause by using their
giftedness. Together, they crafted a future that at one time
seemed nothing more than a pipedream of an "unreasonable"
leader.

Robert Anson Heinlein, author of Stranger in a Strange Land
reminds us of Ginger's lesson in quoting George Bernard Shaw
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world:
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to
himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Continuing to approach the world from the perspective of an
unreasonable person requires having the courage to go against
the flow of convention.

For Ginger, as long as there was any flicker of hope no matter how
dim, there was still a reason to continue to seek the solution. Even
with the odds at a million to one, the one was still there calling
her name.

Inspirational wisdom brought out the collective genius in the
chicken coop. Conventional wisdom sought to squelch it.

What brand of wisdom do you listen to most often? Are you
allowing yourself to settle for second rate repeatedly? Or are
you hearing the call of inspirational wisdom?

Is your answer a resounding "Yes!"?

Ginger, like French Playwright Jean Anouilh, knew what it meant
"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and
plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no,
even if it means dying."

Say Yes. Its a one in a million chance. Yes!

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As Always, With Purpose and Passion,

JULIE JORDAN SCOTT


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