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Learn Intelligent Ignorance
Education teaches us what we can do and also teaches us what we cannot do.
I'm looking for a lot of men with an infinite capacity for not knowing what cannot be done.
--Henry Ford
Henry Ford gave this world the V8 engine. He did not have much formal education. In
fact, he did not go to school beyond the age of 14. He was intelligent enough to know 
there had to be a V8 engine but he was ignorant and didn't know how to build it.
So he asked all his
highly qualified, educated people to build one. But they told him what could be done and
what couldn't. According to them, a V8 was an impossibility. But Henry Ford insisted on
having his V8. A few months later he asked his people if they had the V8 and they
replied, "We know what can be done and we also know what cannot be done and V8 is
an impossibility." This went on for many months and still Henry Ford said, "I want my V8."
And shortly thereafter the same people produced his V8 engine.
How come? They let their imagination run beyond academic limitation. Education
teaches us what can be done and sometimes also teaches us false limitations.
THE BUMBLEBEE
We need to learn from nature. According to scientists, the bumblebee's body is too heavy
and its wing span too small. Aerodynamically, the bumblebee cannot fly. But the
bumblebee doesn't know that and it keeps flying.

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When you don't know your limitations, you go out and surprise yourself. In hindsight, you
wonder if you had any limitations. The only limitations a person has are those that are
self-imposed. Don't let education put limitations on you
.