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Ideas are bulletproof and the world needs big ideas
“Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea. And ideas are bulletproof.” V in V for Vendetta.
Which makes it imperative that we continue to think big, to have grand ideas, and grand ideals to work towards.
Michael Port’s The Think Big Manifesto - Think You Can’t Change Your Life (and the World)? Think Again (ISBN 978-0470432372) was a much needed reminder and kick up the backside for myself. It is all too easy, as Michael himself pointed out, to fall into small thinking, to let ourselves be subsumed in the groupthink of the world around us.
We are all capable of thinking big. But we also want to hide behind the mask of conformity. Society encourages conformity and compliance, to different degrees. I have certainly noticed this more living and working in Singapore. There is a pressure to conform, to self-censor my thoughts, to watch what I say, to worry …
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