When was the last time you had an idea that needed to get out? Maybe you’re a musician, and an idea for a song popped into your head. Or perhaps you own a restaurant, and you think you’ve figured out a genius way to advertise your latest dish. Sometimes we have ideas that we are absolutely head over heels confident about, and sometimes we are not so sure. The funny thing is, regardless of whether or not our ideas are good or bad, a lot of the time we never find out what they could have amounted to. We might have a truly innovative idea but we’re so shy to share it with the world that it falls flat. And sometimes a person can think of something that others might not think is very smart, but because the person is confident about it, he spearheads the operation and makes his ideas into a successful reality. Wallace from Upstate New York had a strange idea – and he followed through with it. We are thrilled that he did.
Wallace was playing around with some matches when he noticed something interesting about them. He realized that there was a lot more to them than meets the eye. Due to his intellectual prowess, and daringness to experiment, Wallace formulated a plan in his head and began to tinker away in his study. He wasn’t sure what was going to happen, and he wasn’t sure if anything of value would come from it. But maybe, just maybe, if everything went according to plan, his interesting idea could ultimately be one of the coolest things anyone has ever done.
Think about all of the amazing artists and inventors that have shaped the zeitgeist of our culture. From Thomas Edison to The Beatles, they are part of an elite group that we like to call pioneers. There is a reason that we call them that. And it isn’t because they are following the rules. It isn’t because they constantly know what they are doing. On the contrary, the definition of a pioneer is someone who paves a new road that no one has ever gone down before – including themselves. Pioneers, like Wallace, are the ones who have the wackiest of ideas and follow through with them. They are the ones who are taking chances, constantly pushing the boundaries of knowledge, and making way for a brighter future.
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One of the most beautiful things in human existence is our supremely advanced intelligence. More than any other known creature on earth, us humans are the pinnacle of evolution. And to those who say that orcas or dolphins are actually smarter than humans in some ways, we’d like to see them do what Wallace the magnificent did. Wallace had an idea, and although others might’ve called it weird, he showed us hard wrong they were.