We have to be in the know, because when we aren't, people die and lawsuits happen. I've never met a surgeon that enjoys a surprise, because as surgeons, we like to be in the know. In general, people can be categorized in one of two ways - those who love surprises and those who don't. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore.
Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. This is the man who discovered electricity.
Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success.
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