There’s an old Chinese proverb that I love:
“He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.”
This is what I said:
I posted that message of encouragement to Elon in 2018 because innovators are often judged in their toughest moments, not their finest hours.
The headlines today are about a trillion-dollar milestone.
The real story is that he never stopped believing that today’s impossibility could become tomorrow’s reality.
The real story is that if you are afraid of failure, you will remain on a treadmill.
This sentence from Carl Jung hits hard.
“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.”
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
David Ambarzumjan is a Berlin-based artist whose Brushstrokes in Time series uses a single sweeping stroke to shift one scene into another, merging different moments and realities into a single image