Not unintelligent, not illogical but unreasonable in the sense that you don’t take the preset and premade package of limitations for granted and as is. This package, masked as a “care package” and “good advice” really most of the times comes from well-meaning sentiments to try and keep you from getting hurt or disappointed not realizing that those things are necessary for you to grow and make something come to be that never was before. So be unreasonable, don’t take the “we’ve always done it this way” mantra as a given set of circumstances that cannot be escaped from, expanded or changed.

Do you know how the first flight of mankind went? Yes you are aware of the now immortalized names of the Wright brothers but this story is not a straight line, it’s more a maze and a swirling mess of failures. At the same time while the two brothers funded their operation from the profits of a small bicycle shop and with the help of a rag tag group of volunteers none of whom even had and advanced degree, Samuel Pierpont Langley, an astrophysicist and a well-connected wealthy construction engineer ,obtained some government money and a seemingly perfect well educated team to do the exact same thing. While he had all the benefits the Wright brothers always carried with them five sets of part out to the field bought by the little money they had and then they had to stop if they broke all of them. Yet the first flight happened in Kitty Hawk Nort Carolina on Dec 17th 1903 not by a well-funded team that had the upper hand but by the unreasonable relentless efforts of a small group of people that refused to believe that what they were trying to do is impossible.

There is no public recognition or glory in trying until you’ve succeed, until the point it works you’re just considered crazy (and unreasonable). You must have noticed by now how outsiders are treated – if you have no money you are considered mad but if your madness worked you’re considered eccentric. Although there is an accolade to be sung for the stability of tradition as well, the unreasonable rule breakers are the ones that change things, not those who took the history written up to know as a definite version of the truth. Truth gets rewritten all the time. if you’re gonna take anything from the combined stories of history lines in all aspects of human endeavor don’t see it as a guide telling you what is possible but take only this few facts: 1. We’ll repeat the same mistakes in different mediums (if we don’t listen); 2. Real progress is slow but it happens; 3. Each era that follows is almost as a rule a direct opposite of what preceded it and (most of the times) not an upgrade. Be unreasonable and try.