Why you might fail to change Thanet
Written by Matt B · first published 10/12/2008
I believe that within every one of the 125,000 or so people that live in Thanet is that spark of genius sufficient to radically redefine our very ideas about what Thanet is and just what it can do. It's not just the territory of a few famous names. Each of us has the gift but we all regularly do not use it.
e, the people of Thanet, have talent enough to spare - if only we'd realise it. Some of us write blogs. A few more of us read them but mostly we carefully and studiously follow patterns of behaviour that mean that the likes of Sandy Ezekiel will always be in power. It is this that lets us down.
We are careful to never be wrong. We are careful to never say the wrong thing, to never make a mistake and to never risk even the slightest loss of face. As such we are largely insignificant and our impact, if it exists at all, is negligible because we are set to consistently fail to do anything new or invigorating.
If you are not prepared to be wrong you'll never come up with anything original.
I've made some of the most amazing mistakes going but I have also come up with some astounding successes. Everyone will tell you that there is no point to blogging but more than that there is no point trying to put food on the table blogging about somewhere like Thanet because no one has any money and even if they do they are not going to want to give it to a blogger. Here I am, blogging away all the same.
Some people who like blogs or write blogs look at Thanet Star and they are not sure what to make of this nutty bloke thinking he can be a "pro blogger" in Thanet. Then they take a look at something like The fantastic site of Lord Matt (that's my personal blog where I talk about whatever is on my mind) and that just confirms that I'm out of my tree. Especially when these people find out that what I like to think about, for fun, is, say, the practical application of say integrated RSS implementations hybridised with database server technology to create a data exploration system along with statistical analysis of tasks we all do anyway.
But it's not just me that's able to go to some very strange places and come back with an original and useful idea. I fully believe that every single person in Thanet is able to do this too. Now just imagine if just 5% (that's 6,250 people) found their skill and had the courage to start using it. Thanet would be changed forever.
You can be that change.
In this video (below) Sir Ken Robinson talks about creativity and wonders if Schools kill creativity. The truth is that creativity is something we are trained to ignore because all mistakes are always bad and to avoid mistakes we must avoid risk.
Yet any investment broker (yes those guys) will tell you that the best gains come with the bigger risks.
Go take a few risks today.
e, the people of Thanet, have talent enough to spare - if only we'd realise it. Some of us write blogs. A few more of us read them but mostly we carefully and studiously follow patterns of behaviour that mean that the likes of Sandy Ezekiel will always be in power. It is this that lets us down.
We are careful to never be wrong. We are careful to never say the wrong thing, to never make a mistake and to never risk even the slightest loss of face. As such we are largely insignificant and our impact, if it exists at all, is negligible because we are set to consistently fail to do anything new or invigorating.
If you are not prepared to be wrong you'll never come up with anything original.
I've made some of the most amazing mistakes going but I have also come up with some astounding successes. Everyone will tell you that there is no point to blogging but more than that there is no point trying to put food on the table blogging about somewhere like Thanet because no one has any money and even if they do they are not going to want to give it to a blogger. Here I am, blogging away all the same.
Some people who like blogs or write blogs look at Thanet Star and they are not sure what to make of this nutty bloke thinking he can be a "pro blogger" in Thanet. Then they take a look at something like The fantastic site of Lord Matt (that's my personal blog where I talk about whatever is on my mind) and that just confirms that I'm out of my tree. Especially when these people find out that what I like to think about, for fun, is, say, the practical application of say integrated RSS implementations hybridised with database server technology to create a data exploration system along with statistical analysis of tasks we all do anyway.
But it's not just me that's able to go to some very strange places and come back with an original and useful idea. I fully believe that every single person in Thanet is able to do this too. Now just imagine if just 5% (that's 6,250 people) found their skill and had the courage to start using it. Thanet would be changed forever.
You can be that change.
In this video (below) Sir Ken Robinson talks about creativity and wonders if Schools kill creativity. The truth is that creativity is something we are trained to ignore because all mistakes are always bad and to avoid mistakes we must avoid risk.
Yet any investment broker (yes those guys) will tell you that the best gains come with the bigger risks.
Go take a few risks today.
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Rick wrote:
Story for Matt
My aunt owned a hotel in Surrey Road. I moved there weighing just 8 stones in 1972/73 after serious (temporary death) illness. My aunt taught ballroom dancing. Two of her pupils were Stan Edwards and his wife. Stan was ex Desert Rat PTI who ran Margate Boys Club. It was Stan who got me into weightlifting (I will be blogging on weightlifting in COPD at some point)
So there I was new to the area and driving down Wilderness Hill. A minicab overtook me downhill approaching the junction, barely stopped to look both ways while he was still across centre of road and shot across the junction.
There was one of the old invalid carriages there jammed and unable to get up the pavement ramp to get into the park. This minicab does an emergency stop next to the invalid carriage and this monster of a driver (about the size I am now over 18 stones) jumps out and bodily lifts the invalid carriage with its passenger into the park entrance.
He gives the disabled driver a thumbs up and runs back to drive his cabn off.
At this juncture I had abandoned my initial idea of calling the minicab driver every sort of phallus and I drove past.
Up the top there was a wide junction. I stopped looked both ways and drew out.
Minicab driver by this time had caught up and figured if he is pulling out I will keep going and overtake him into the right turn. And I watched his bald tyres screech off and away ahead of me.
I told old Stan about this and he said "Welcome to Thanet he was probably late for signing on"
If someone can figure a way to bring the altruistic invalid carriage assistance aspect of the local persona to the fore ... whilst less emphasis is given to the construction and use abuse apects ?
Are you saying that you are such a man Matt ?