A Spark by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe from The Vision, chapter 34
“A problem or difficulty is only imposing when you sit around doing nothing about it, but when you stand up to it, its stature will be laughable.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 34
The walk-through
Left alone, a problem grows. Faced, it turns out to be smaller than it looked. Sitting still lets it dictate how you live, which hands it a power it never earned on its own; stand up to it and “its stature will be laughable”.
Innocent means the laugh close to literally — challenges turn up and he laughs, the way a champion with a long run of personal victories behind him regards a weaker opponent. The victories are the point: he has seen how little it can take. “One small decision made and one small action taken at the right time can eliminate problems”.
Standing up still takes a plan, though. What you do and how you do it decide the outcome together — a weak plan executed perfectly still fails, and a sound plan executed badly fails too. But none of that craft gets a chance until you stop letting the problem set the terms.
AI-composed from Innocent's text, reviewed and refined by Innocent.
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