Forward-thinkers have it all backwards. ✎ By Wayne K. Spear
preposterous, a. (prɪˈpɒstərəs) [f. L. præposter, reversed]
1. Having or placing last that which should be first; inverted in position or order.
“Life can only be understood backwards,” wrote Soren Kierkegaard.
Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth Revisited, advises us to imagine what we want people to say of us at our funerals, and to live accordingly.
It’s called reverse engineering. Start at the end, work your way backward.
Put the cart before the horse. Read the last page first. The answers really are at the back.
“In my end is my beginning” – T.S. Eliot
Here is a great idea from the writer James Altucher: Take a sheet of paper and a pen. In the middle of the sheet, write THAT’S CRAZY. Now work backwards, figuring out all the pathways to THAT’S CRAZY.
James Altucher is crazy, because he doesn’t let THAT’S CRAZY get in his way, ever.
THAT’S CRAZY is where you want to end up in your life. It’s your wildest dreams, your fantasies, the things you tell yourself you can never have, or do, or be.
Why? Because that’s crazy.
So be crazy, and be preposterous.
