I think emotion has got a bad rap in our culture. Everyone, or the majority, seems to operate from the mind. This is reasonable, so let me follow this path. And yet, the great symphonies, and the great movements, and the great acts of architecture, and the great businesses, and the great lives were not only constructed from reason, as a matter of fact, they were constructed from, I’m going to create a word, dis-reason. George Bernard Shaw said, “A reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” If you look at the man on the moon, you look at Tim Berners-Lee and the advent of the internet,you look at the advances of bio-hacking and anti-aging, you look at Mars exploration, you look at the disruptive creators on the planet, every single one of those women and men had one thing in common. They pursued something that the status quo suggested was unreasonable, impractical, and impossible. That’s why if you want to rule the world, you absolutely must be an impossibilitarian. You must be an imaginationalist, which is a term from The 5AM Club. You, literally, must believe in your vision when the majority says that is crazy and then have the intestinal fortitude and creative bravery to be laughed at, called a freak, a misfit, have stones thrown at you, and continue, at all costs, until your ridicule is translated into reverence.
