4 minute MILE - a famous term which showed how human performance is limited by its own imagination. For years people believed that the a MILE cannot be run in under 4 minutes.... and none could.....until in 1954, a young Oxford medical student, Roger Bannister broke the record - and the psychological barrier, by completing the MILE in 3min 59.4 sec! The current world record is under 3min 43.13 seconds (Wow - people caught on the idea quickly!).
The 100m world record - broken many times.... when will it reach its threshold? Is there a threshold? Is there a limit?
For that sake, is there ever anything which has a limit.... (maybe the speed of light?)
Someone came ... broke a record .... and set a new one. Someone else will come, work as hard.... and equal the record. One day, someone will come...work a little more hard.. and set a new record by a hairline! If someone can do something X times good, can put in X amount of effort, can do X amount of hardwork, can make X amount of sacrifices, which law in the world stops another one from doing an X+1? And then what stops someone else from putting an X+2?
The law of nature - the theroy of evolution - everything can be perfected... and still improved. There is no limit to human potential..there is no limit to perfection. There were times when scientists predicted that "The limit of scientific inventions and breakthroughs have been reached... no more significant ones shall be seen anymore"... but still.. nothing has changed - inventions are still on a roll ... discoveries are still on the run ... the wheel is still turning..the world is still changing.
The only limits on this world....are the limits we put on them.....
The only limits on our achievements...are the limits of our imagination....
The only reason world records happen... are so that they can be trampled , smashed and broken...
The only aim of our life...is the quest for perfection...
What do you think is the essence of Kaizen?
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