FROM "MAXI-MIND" - A BOOK ON CREATIVE THINKING

Most people drift through life without questioning their day-to-day actions or their real wants and desires. Motivated by short-term gratification, they look forward to the next cold beer, eggs and toast in the morning, the baseball game or the football game. Rarely do they ever see themselves placed against the larger canvas of the universe, the world, the human race, or even their local community.

That larger sense of fitting or belonging to a greater picture is left to a precious few. Those who have it share a sense of self-worth, of meaning, which leads them to greater happiness and success in their life.

This larger mental picture is drawn for us by our power of creativity. It is our ability to imagine, to have vision, that helps us put ourselves in that picture. Our role in that big picture gives us our goals for the future, our purpose in life.

Research has shown that eighty-four per cent of people feel that they are under-employed or under-utilised. Thirty per cent of people are less than happy with their relationships. Only FIVE PER CENT of people have written goals for their life.

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An overwhelming majority are just drifting, taking the path of least resistance. These people are easy, vulnerable prey for modern advertising or social pressure - anything that will tell them what they ought to do and who they ought to be. Most of our useful citizens are caught up in this kind of ‘rat-race’, working from school to retirement by putting one foot in front of the other, and conforming to the norm.

In the game of life, as in a race, the winner only leads by a tiny bit of distance--by a footstep, by a 'nose'. That tiny edge may be given by doing just one thing better than the rest, or it may be a dozen, a hundred, small insignificant differences where they do something just a tiny bit better. Those differences can come from keeping our eye on the goal, the target, instead of on short-term 'trivial pursuits'.