“Great
spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” - Albert
Einstein
We have been asking the question “what happened to your dream?”, that great vision you had, that passion that drove you, until you saw a duplicate that failed, someone that failed trying to do what you are dreaming of and you stopped shut in your tracks and your passion died. I have come to discover that one of the reasons why people give up on their dreams is that someone ahead of them has failed trying to do what they were dreaming of achieving and thus left them with a negative picture of their future. I call it negative peer pressure, and peer pressure can be positive when you are surrounded by many successful examples.
Em Griffin in his book The "Mindchangers" describes an experiment done by Solomon Asch with groups of 12 people. They were brought into a room where four lines of unequal length were displayed. They had to decide which two were the same length and publicly vote for their choice. Person after person after person (11 in all) voted for the wrong line-
Em Griffin in his book The "Mindchangers" describes an experiment done by Solomon Asch with groups of 12 people. They were brought into a room where four lines of unequal length were displayed. They had to decide which two were the same length and publicly vote for their choice. Person after person after person (11 in all) voted for the wrong line-
