We excuse away the way we are being with vague, abstract generalizations, brushing aside, for example, our lack of powerful performance with the notion that we’re a small, weak, undeveloped nation.
Seeing ourselves small and weak and unable, we settle into a mediocrity that cripples how we tackle the tasks of building our days.
Life is a day to day building block, a planned, strategic effort involving the mind, the soul, and the body in the act of creating the future we foresee, with cultivated foresight.
It calls for developing and inculcating insight, vision and an inspiring purpose. Without insight, we cannot cultivate foresight, that anticipating of the kind of future we could create.
Just as vital, we’ve got to exercise hindsight, a depth of awareness and consciousness of where we’ve come from, the road we traversed to where we are today. This Naipaulesque insight underlines not only how conscious we are about our own current condition and how we got to be the way we are, but exercising hindsight,