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Helen Keller - "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and let's dive into today's
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  quote from Helen Keller, who became deaf and blind at 19
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  months old. Yet she learned to read, write,
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  and speak, accomplishing what many said was impossible.
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  She once said, while we were saying amongst ourselves it
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  cannot be done, it was done. Think about the timing here.
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  Not after they stopped doubting. Not once they changed their
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  minds while they were saying it couldn't be done.
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  Helen Keller lived this. People said she'd never learned
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  to communicate, said it was impossible, said she should be
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  institutionalized. While they were saying that she
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  was learning, while they were debating whether or not it could
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  be done, her teacher, Ann Sullivan was doing it.
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  This is the pattern of every major breakthrough, every
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  impossible achievement, every it can't be done.
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  That became it has been done. The Wright brothers built a
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  flying machine while experts published papers proving human
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  flight was impossible. Roger Bannister ran a 4 minute
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  mile while scientists said the human body couldn't do it.
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  The doubters talk, the doers do. And by the time the doubters
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  finish explaining why it's impossible, it's already been
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  accomplished. Here's the critical insight.
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  The doubters aren't necessarily wrong to doubt the thing that
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  might actually be extremely difficult.
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  It might have never been done before.
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  It might seem impossible based on current knowledge, but while
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  they're debating whether it can be done, someone else is just
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  doing it. The doing happens while the
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  doubting is still going on. You don't wait for permission,
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  you don't wait for consensus, you don't wait for the doubters
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  to change their minds. You just do the work, and when
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  they look up from their debate, it's finished.
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  So here's the question, what are people telling you can't be
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  done? And what would happen if while
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  they were saying it, you just did it?
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  Because the doubters will always doubt that's what they do.
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  But while they're doubting, you can be doing.
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  And when it's done, their doubts won't matter anymore.
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  That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.