Minutes with Dad - Between your Ears
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The Six Inches Between Your Ears
Minutes with Dad
How much of what we think is impossible is actually impossible—and how much of it is simply something we've convinced ourselves we can't do?
In this episode of Minutes with Dad, I share the remarkable true story of George Dantzig, a graduate student who arrived late to class, mistook two famous unsolved math problems for homework, and solved them—partly because no one had told him they were supposed to be impossible.
We also look at Roger Bannister's four-minute mile, the modern idea of taking on a Misogi—an intentionally difficult personal challenge—and why doing something hard can give you something more valuable than the accomplishment itself:
Evidence about who you are and what you're capable of.
Sometimes the distance between where you are and where you want to be isn't measured in miles, years, money, education, or experience.
Sometimes it's only about six inches—the distance between your ears.