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"The Questions Are The Same"
Hello
In 1951, the Nobel prizewinning physicist Albert Einstein was teaching at
Princeton University.
He had just administered an examination to an advanced class of
physics students and was on his way back to his office. His teaching assistant
was walking with him, carrying the completed exam papers.
The assistant, a little shy…
In the presence of the greatest physicist of the twentieth
century, asked him; “Dr. Einstein, wasn’t the exam you just gave this class of
physics students - the same exam that you gave to this same class
last year?”
Dr. Einstein thought for a moment and then said, “Yes, it was the
same exam.”
The teaching assistant then asked hesitantly,
“But Dr. Einstein, how could you give the same exam to the same class, two years
in a row?”
Einstein’s answer was classic.
He said, “Well, the answers have changed.”
And isn’t it true…
Whilst the questions you and I need to ask ourselves on a consistent basis –
remain the same – the answers through the passage of time and experience – will
also consistently
change!
Just think…
If
someone asked you for your definition of success say 20 years ago – what might
you have replied?
And
then – that self-same question today. What’s your answer now?
Or how about…
How
much money would you have to have to make you feel rich?
20
years ago? 10 years ago? 5 years ago?
And
maybe today the monetary aspect doesn’t even get a part in
the play!
And just for fun…
What’s your dream for the next 12 months?
20
years ago? 10 years ago? 5 years ago?
And
today maybe – the realization that the dream can and perhaps even might be so
ENORMOUS, so GIGANTIC, so STRETTTCCHHHING as to make your eyes water with joyful
anticipation – knowing you now know how and what and when to do.
Oh what different…
People you and I have become over such a relatively short span of clock ticking
‘byes’!
I
wonder if you can think of some questions asked before where answers may be oh
so different – might be fun to try – don’t you think?
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Peter Thomson
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