If you have Big Goals, just give me 180 seconds
Description: Some of the ideas and goals that changed the world sounded completely delusional before they worked.
butt, you never know whether you're being unrealistic or you're just early.
Honorable mention: [watch the vid first]
• Gunder Hägg was told after getting pneumonia to forget about his running career. He came back and set multiple world records, including running the mile in 4:01.4, just seconds away from the four-minute barrier people had spent decades chasing.
• Arunima Sinha lost her leg after being thrown from a moving train, then decided she would climb Mount Everest. She became the first female amputee to reach its summit.
• Jan Koum: He immigrated to the U.S. with his mother and grew up relying on government assistance. Then he helped build WhatsApp, a free messaging app that connected billions of people around the world.
Sometimes a goal sounds delusional because you're asking people to imagine something they've never seen before.
That doesn't mean you should make the goal smaller. Close description
butt, you never know whether you're being unrealistic or you're just early.
Honorable mention: [watch the vid first]
• Gunder Hägg was told after getting pneumonia to forget about his running career. He came back and set multiple world records, including running the mile in 4:01.4, just seconds away from the four-minute barrier people had spent decades chasing.
• Arunima Sinha lost her leg after being thrown from a moving train, then decided she would climb Mount Everest. She became the first female amputee to reach its summit.
• Jan Koum: He immigrated to the U.S. with his mother and grew up relying on government assistance. Then he helped build WhatsApp, a free messaging app that connected billions of people around the world.
Sometimes a goal sounds delusional because you're asking people to imagine something they've never seen before.
That doesn't mean you should make the goal smaller. Close description