It sometimes gets really hard to keep pursuing your dreams because you get tired and discouraged and you don’t feel like what you do now will even amount to anything.
And then you get a little gem of inspiration that helps you keep going.
Encourage dreaming? That may not seem like a recipe for success to some, but it is perhaps the most important factor of all. US psychologist Ellis Paul Torrance followed the lives of several hundred creative high-achievers from high school into middle age, among them academics, writers, inventors, teachers, consultants, business executives and a song-writer. He noticed that it wasn’t scholastic or technical abilities or achievements at school that set them apart, but characteristics such as having a sense of purpose, the courage to be creative, delighting in deep thinking and feeling comfortable in a minority of one. Most important of all, he thought, was to “fall in love with a dream”, preferably at a young age, and then pursue it with intensity. Torrance called his group of high-fliers “beyonders”. He reckoned their accomplishments went beyond anything that standard quantitative tests could have predicted – and beyond anyone’s wildest dreams but their own.
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