Progress Depends On The Unreasonable

“Progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw

The more I study this quote, the more truth I find in it.

If you look back throughout the world’s greatest achievements, they typically start with an unreasonable man.

Martin Luther King, George Washington, and Jesus - each and everyone of them brought radical ideas that ultimately changed the world forever.

They had a vision (or a dream) and pursued it against all odds.

If George Washington were a reasonable man, he would have admitted defeat after the first gunshot in the Revolutionary War.

Yet he didn’t. His vision of The Land Of The Free was greater than any obstacle in his way.

Chasing after your dreams is hard. You are trying to climb up a mountain, and there is always resistance when you are in pursuit of something greater.

During this climb, your reason starts to kick in. You start asking yourself if climbing this mountain is going to be worth the view.

You start thinking about settling and turning around. Reason is confused about why you are putting yourself through this pain for something that could not even be guaranteed.

But the unreasonable man, the one with the boldness and courage to continue in the face of adversity, only he will see the mountain top.

The unreasonable man knows that fear is an illusion and will do whatever it takes to produce the change he wants to see.

“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.” - George Bernard Shaw (Full quote)

Maybe it is time to reject the status quo and start being more unreasonable.

Go out and make a difference.