Would you try it?

Please watch the clip before reading my comments.

They were all lost in their own fixations, just as we often are. Day after day, following the same routine, always believing in the same things, without ever questioning the status quo, without learning a new habit, without challenging the old. The important thing is to keep playing the same without anyone annoying you.

In a world where everyone reconciles themselves, “trying” is something that only a person who is out of his mind would do: “It’s impossible” … “you can’t do it” … are the only things that are usually said. Meanwhile, they fight apathy with futility. When I watched the scene I imagined the walls of that room as the boundaries of my life. It is no different to working in a company, teaching in a school, living family life or simply going out with a group of friends.

There is always someone who wants to try, to keep hope alive, and others who look on as if that person were out of their mind, a maverick, a dreamer. Until suddenly a special energy is created in the air, a climate of possibility.

In the scene, when Randle’s friends see the determination, they begin to believe that the feat is indeed possible and that he could actually make it. It creates the right suspense for something to happen and no matter how it turns out, he can always say that he tried, and that at least he tried.

I cannot help but think of all the times that “I did not even try“: so I will never know how it would have ended up. Maybe I could have done it, maybe not, we will never know. I will never know. Randle, however, will never have that regret.

If you have a team, it might be interesting to ask these questions: “What should we try to do, even though we know that it is impossible?“

“Are there things that are worth trying, despite how they will turn out?“

or increase the level of possibility: “What might have happened if the effort of one individual was combined with the collective effort of the group?“

Questions that stimulate the revival of “forces” which for the most part are unknown, but that would be crucial to any kind of change: social, business or personal. Man is too sure of himself, when it comes to belittling himself.

The secret is to challenge what we do not know, or that is simply buried inside us under our conscience, but that could be “magically” awakened. Broaden your horizons and look at this room as if it were the society in which you live, every so often there is someone who tries. Often that person fails because there are 10 other people who don’t believe in him, who weaken him, who diminish him, and pull him back.

Other times someone comes along who “does not know that it is impossible” and tries with all his might, and succeeds. Remember Forrest Gump?

In the movie “The Man from Earth,” a biologist says, “The human body is programmed to live about 190 years, but in reality we die for poisoning beforehand” (due to food and drugs of any kind). We have proof of people who still live for 140 years, but the whole “system” does not want to talk about it because what keeps these individuals alive is the complete incontamination from the progress that feeds the “system” itself. (see The Hunza – the people free from illnesses).

So the Hunza live well because they do not know about the existence of illnesses. So what do you not know? To what giant purpose should we aim to access the great power that we possess?

I’ll leave these thoughts with you, so that you can say “at least I tried,” and invite others to do the same. Besides “Risk weighs ounces, regret weighs tons“.

“… and in case I don’t see ya…

good afternoon, good evening and good night!”…

(The Truman Show)

Virginio