The ABCs of Success: The Essential Principles from America's Greatest Prosperity Teacher by Bob Proctor

Author:Bob Proctor
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-06-08T14:00:00+00:00

The secret to happiness is freedom . . . And the secret to freedom is courage.

INNOVATION

Un-Common Sense

You must be careful of those much-abused terms “common sense” and “conscience.” Both are based on moral standards of the times and the accepted opinions of the masses. “Un-common sense” is truly the priceless ingredient that stands behind all progress and inventions.

It was not long ago that the world was considered flat because it was “common sense” to believe so.

Samuel Morse could not get the consent of the state of New Jersey to have poles erected so he could send messages from New York to Pennsylvania. Morse was refused on the grounds that it was not “common sense” to send a message through a wire by tapping on an instrument.

When the Wright brothers first began to fly at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, it took a long time before the masses would believe they were actually doing it. It wasn’t “common sense.”

Do a little research and you will find that at the turn of the nineteenth century it was not proper for a female to lie on a beach in a bathing suit that did not completely hide her anatomy. Those who dared to break the rigid rules of society and its conceptions of decency were severely criticized and punished. Society saw to it that they suffered from pangs of “conscience.”

Today, of course, people can enjoy the sunshine and the beaches without inhibition—the “common sense” of today is much healthier than the “common sense” of yesterday.

Our present way of life is based on moral standards that were branded years ago as “indecent” or “impossible”—and yet we are improving all the time.

Identify yourself with growth and progress by using your God-given faculties more fully. Use “un-common sense.”

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