The Sense of the Possible

In the article "Microlending: Toward a Poverty-Free World" by Muhammand Yunus he taught me about how we need to change our mindset about poverty and how people are affected by it, including us. One of my favorite quotes was, 

"We have created the present world in this particular manner because our minds were trained to behave in a particular set of ways that led to this formulation of the world. If we train our minds to think differently we can create another kind of world. 
     For example we accept the fact that we'll always have poor people around us. So we have poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty should not belong in a civilized human society we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty free world. We wanted to go to the moon--so we went there if we are not achieving something my first suspicion will fall on the intensity of our desire to achieve it."

I think that's so profound. I love how powerful even what we think can be in the world. I think it's awesome the power of opinion is in an individual.

Also, in Elder Gay's speech I learned that I need to be the kind of person that doesn't just do what they're told but the kind of person that will actually solve the problem. A person who takes initiative. 
He brought this question to light, "If you only had a few years would you live differently than you do now?"
Elder Gay also talked about Erik Weihenmayer, who was the first blind man to climb Mt. Everest, said that he was motivated by the sense of the possible. I really liked that. I want to be motivated by the sense of the possible.