Beginning or end...

Human brain is a clutter of ideas and thoughts. It depends on us whether we nourish it and give it a new beginning or kill it and give an end. We hear the stories of success of great scientists, entrepreneurs, leaders… and what do they start with???? Just a small idea... I have always liked the marketing punch line of idea ‘An idea can change your life’. Determination added to idea is what that builds empires.

I was going through the continental drift concept and was amazed to know that it is a small thought that created the whole theory, it is as small that you need not be great intelligent or great thinker for the idea to strike in your mind.

Let me start with the theory first which is quiet interesting, and which unveils some of the amazing facts about the world. According to this concept some 200 million years ago all the continents were joined into a super continent known as Pangaea. The map above shows the drifting of continents. Seems quiet interesting, India moved a long way to be in its presents position. It totally got detached from one piece of land moved a long way and joined the present Asia. It seems like our life time is a blink when compared to the existence of world. It took 50 years for the geologists to find evidences and to accept this theory. There are animal and plant fossils in the world showing evidences of Pangaea. This theory was first proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. I was surprised on knowing how the whole theory began…with a small thought or small observation. Alfred Wegener observed that the shapes of continents on either side of Atlantic oceans seem to fit together i.e. Africa and South America, the points A and B in the map. That is where the idea kindled that all continents might be joined, and with determination and serious studies the theory is proved.

There are millions and trillions of people who happen to see world map day in day out, but how many of us observed that the shapes of Africa and South America fit each other? Even if we have observed, how many of us started working on it or researching it. I now feel how I couldn’t observe this little thing, which surely does not need great observation power or intelligence. It is because my mind is preoccupied with many other minor things like movies, cricket, parties, dressing…Had I observed it with concentration and interest I would have found out. Most of us feel that inventions and discoveries are out of our reach, but the fact is we are ourselves confining our reach. We are not letting our thoughts cross the borders which are drawn by us subconsciously.

We all have studied about gravitational theory in school discovered by Newton. It is a small incident which made him think… an apple falling on him from the tree. Ideas come from small incidents, which need to be nourished for a new beginning. Many business empires were built by entrepreneurs who start with a small idea and further it with determination.

David Schwartz in his book ‘Magic of thinking big’ said that thousands of ideas strike human brain, which when ignored are forgotten. He advised all to carry a pencil and paper all the time and write the ideas. He said, if offered 2000 $ and a pencil paper to him, he would definitely chose a pencil and paper.

It is in our hands whether to start a new beginning or end it completely.