Dreams and Goal – Let’s achieve it.

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If you are having trouble achieving everything that you would like to achieve in life, this dangerous kind of thinking may be holding you back.

Dreams and Goal – Let’s achieve it.

In this short article I’d like to discuss a there are many kinds of belief that people holds – people who are quite capable and talented – back from reaching goals, realizing dreams, and becoming all that they can become. The concept of the “Absolute Presupposition” is central to this discussion. (The term was originally coined by the British philosopher R.G. Collingwood, in a somewhat different context.)

What do you mean by absolute presupposition? For our purposes here we may define it as a statement that is necessarily, unquestionably, inarguably true. There are no circumstances you can imagine under which it can be false. “Two plus two equals to four” is a statement of this kind. So is “If you throw a ball up in the air, it will fall back to Earth.” Absolute presuppositions are statements we must accept as true if our world is to make any sense to us at all.

However, as we see any moment, sometimes we mistakenly believe that statement to be an absolute presupposition…and it turns out as a result that it really isn’t. If you are encountering an unusually tough problem in life  I’m going to suggest that- whether it be in business, the arts, sports, your personal life, whatever – it is because you are believing something to be an absolute presupposition which really isn’t one. You believe something to be necessarily true and it isn’t even true at all. Let’s look at some instances. 

Middle Ages people believed that if you sailed a ship out to the line of the horizon, where the sea and sky met, then you would fall off the edge of the planet. Why? Because they believed Earth as a flat planet. They had no knowledge of the laws of gravity and physics hence; they could not possibly imagine any other situation. – a round Earth was simply inconceivable. “The Earth is flat,” was an absolute presupposition, and every single person who was alive on the face of the earth believed it to be true. Yet it isn’t true. 

Similarly, once in history it was thought to run a mile in less than four minutes is impossible for a human being. People believed this to be true for untold centuries – millions, even billions, of people at one time thought “It is impossible for a human being to run a mile in under four minutes” to be an absolute presupposition. Yet it was shown to be untrue when Roger Bannister did it. After Bannister, runners everywhere started beating the time. 

So then: In your own life beliefs exist that are like “The Earth is flat” and “It is impossible for a human being to run a mile in under four minutes.” We have greatest potential, but these beliefs hold us back. We set up obstacles and impediments by taking it for granted, and by not questioning, beliefs that we mistakenly hold as sacrosanct. By identifying these beliefs, and by examining how we might break free of the constraints they impose upon us, we begin to make incredible progress in all the fields and whatever we want to do. 

So, just believe yourself and change your dream goal into reality! 

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