"An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you."- Cobb, Inception
A friend recently observed that any conversation in Bengaluru (India) sooner or later steers toward traffic woes. Invariably, everyone claims to have a solution for Bengaluru's traffic woes. You get to hear all sorts of ideas: fix all the potholes, build flyovers, introduce more public transport, and get those hyperloops or even flying cars. There are so many ideas, but our traffic woes persist.
We are creatures of imagination and ideas. We love fantasy. We dream up a reality that doesn't exist today, but that is also our biggest strength. Ideas can motivate us to strive for the impossible, but that is also the bane of ideas. There is a very fuzzy line between difficult and impossible. We end up chasing our tails trying to pursue ideas that sound important. Why is that? Is it because we don't understand...