Doing Nothing, And Ultimately Doing Something

This article is about mistakes, and how to genuinely correct them, primarily. Although this article is about mistakes, it is about learning and creativity also. So, think about this fact. Sometimes the best thing to do with a mistake is to do nothing but observe and learn from it so that you can do better in the next action taken.

With that said, I would also like to imply this: Reality is best served when you learn how not to do things, so that the doing of them right is certain when you next attempt to take an action. Active understanding is the key to working with reality as a whole. Passive understanding is learning to work with reality by observation of how not to do things. This is what Thomas Edison was using when inventing the light bulb and synthetic rubber with his associates. A combination of active and passive understanding was used to pull off these feats, otherwise without this sort of understanding, Edison and his associates would have quit at the first try saying that infamous word: "Impossible."

"Nature to be commanded, must be obeyed." A quote from Francis Bacon

The point of that quote after the word "impossible" is that nature is successfully commanded by passive and active understanding as I describe it here. When you learn from mistakes, you "automatically" better yourself. I put the word automatic in quotes, because there is still a choice to be made. A choice to learn or not to learn. So, I say this: The ultimate laziness is abiding by the word impossible and genuinely quitting after a few tries at learning how not to do it, and you will never have a real chance to learn how to do it.

From Leonardo Da Vinci and his thought up or postulated flying machine to the Wright Brothers and their actual flying machine, it all comes down to learning how not to do it through history until you finally understand how to do it and then do it right. So, when I say in my title doing nothing and ultimately doing something, this is exactly what I mean: You must first understand fully how not to do something, and then do it with full understanding of what works within what did not work.

So, I would like to end with, as long as there is a concept of what can be done as it starts out as an idea, there is not any such thing as impossible if it starts out as a concept that can ultimately be carried out.

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