It all started with a dream. For some that dream began at 6 years old, for others it didn’t come until college. That entrepreneurial itch. They were going to create something amazing in the world. They were going to break free from the world that was trying to define them and discover who they really are. They were going to show the world what they can do when they have the freedom to invent themselves.
It’s what Steven Pressfield calls, the hero’s journey. It’s a journey filled often with hard work, struggle, and failure as well as a whole lot of fun, fulfilment and adventure.
There’s the peers path, this one seems safe and familiar. It’s full of the me too’s of shared experience. But often me too’s are of shared suffering of disconnected relationships, illness, back pain and what’s wrong with people who don’t think like us.
There’s the praise path, this path is often intoxicating as first we acted and got applause. Now we act for the applause and find ourselves pandering to it. It controls our choices and so direction. We are blown where ever the wind takes us and physically suffer, first only when the applause is silent then always as we see the difference between acceptance and entertainment.
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Would we see more clearly that not distributing the food evenly was not only wrong it was sabotaging the whole?
Would we see that deaths due to poor distribution of abundant resources like water, shelter, food, education, health care was not just barbaric but that fixing this problem today would transform the whole spaceship for the better with more minds, more travel, more innovation, more communication and more love?
Would we better understand that how we treat other people has ripple effects that set the tone for the whole crew?
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