Don't settle for less than extraordinary

“A Beautiful Mind” is the story of a man who would not settle on being less than extraordinary. John Nash had a great mind. He saw the world as a consequence of mathematical equations.

His world was logical.
His world was rational.

And, his world was insane, for you see, John Nash also saw things which did not exist. He had conversations with imaginary people. His delusions were as real as his reality. Medication made the imaginary people disappear — but also his genius.

So, with courage, he faced his demons on the strength of his mind alone without medication. He learned to ignore his demons and hold fast to what he knew to be real.

“We must believe that in our lives, something extraordinary can happen.” — Russell Crowe, who played Nash in the movie, as he accepted the Golden Globe award.

We aren’t all destined to discover the mathematical truths of the universe, but we are all destined for something — something extraordinary.

Many of you aren’t convinced. You don’t believe in extraordinary any more. Every day, you go to work and nothing extraordinary happens. You go to school and nothing extraordinary happens. You come home and go to bed and can’t think of one thing to call extraordinary.

You’ve almost given up hope that extraordinary exists.

But it does. It will. It must.

You’ve got to dream. I know it’s easy to lose sight of that. In the middle of doing the mundane, the extraordinary seems unimaginable, unbelievable, certainly unattainable.

But imagine you must.
Believe you must.
You are here to accomplish something extraordinary.

You are here to accomplish something extraordinary. Search for it, then dig deeper.

Try harder. Find your something extraordinary.

All it takes to make ordinary into extraordinary is the “extra” that you add to life.