Week 2 Blog #2: I Am A Contribution!

I Am A Contribution

The goal of chapter 4 in the book "The Art of Possibility" written by Roz and Ben Zander is to teach others how to reinvent themselves as a contribution. According to the book, there are two steps to practice this and they are as follows:

1. Declare yourself to be a contribution.
2. Throw yourself into life a s someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.

When your life does not go as well as planned, and you experience failure, stop, recollect yourself, and remember that you do contribute to this world. You just being here is a contribution. Oftentimes, we determine our self worth by how successful we have become in life. Our net worth, our job, our education, if it were to all go south, would you still view yourself as a contribution? Ben and Roz teach us that instead of viewing our lives as a huge arena of either success or failure, view it rather as a place of contribution. Instead of examining yourselves on how successful you are each week, try examining yourselves by the contributions to the world you have made each week.

Eventually, we will probably all learn to appreciate our self worth, learn that we do matter, and understand how to continuously be a contribution to the world.