Why Can’t You Just Be Reasonable?

When someone tells me that I’m unreasonable, I sometimes think about this quote:

The reasonable man conforms to the world, while the unreasonable man tries to conform the world to him. Therefore, all progress relies upon the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw

[ Hey, progress also relies on the unreasonable woman! ]

I will be the first to admit that about 90% of my ideas are crap and an utter waste of time. That’s why I try very intently to filter the ideas I share and to be careful that only well thought-out and articulated ideas are shared. Using this approach, I think I got it down so that only 85% of what I say is now useless.

However, I still try. It’s not the misses that counts, its the hits.

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