Do you believe you can be anything you want to be if you put your mind to it?

Question

Sowcat.... You sound like a very angry and bitter man. Why not get off the computer if it makes you so upset and go get some fresh air? Best of luck to you.

Answer 1

No. There is a limit for what you can be. Either limit set by surrounding circumstances, health state, intellectual capacity, or ruled out by impossibility, like the case of the blind never-seeing the sky no matter what. But if you mean things like becoming theoretical physicist, writing a novel, running for president, are all possible and depend on the effort you put to them. Note that surrounding conditions always play a vital role in what-ever you try to be.  

Answer 2

No, I can't be superman and learn to fly.  I can't know everything in the universe.  I cannot become your God and master.  There are many things I cannot do, even if I put my mind to it.  Have you ever heard of cancer?  I had a cousin I loved dearly and she did not beat cancer though she certainly had a wonderful mind and she certainly did not want to die.  Do you blame her for her own death?  Did she commit suicide?  People who ask questions like this make me very angry sometimes.  Think before you talk.  

Why don't you answer one of my questions?  Do people with cancer die of it because they don't "put their minds to it?"  Do you not have 5 billion dollars because you don't put your mind to it?  Answer the questions and let me worry about whether I'm angry or need some air.  Answer the questions.

One last thing I cannot do no matter how much I put my mind to it.  I cannot reach people like you who refuse to use their minds in a logical and disciplined manner.  Please, prove me wrong on this one.

Answer 3

no i dont think so

cause sometimes u want to b something but i does not work with u coz god dint see any benefit in it so I'll go to other direction that u may not like but it will be in ur benefit

best of luck

Answer 4

yes i do think you can be anything you want to be if you put your mind to it  

Answer 5

not really,

there is limitation in human's physical ability

e.g: if you are born blind, you won't be able to see how skies look like,no matter how hard you picture it

Answer 6

No. Everyone has physical and mental limitations.  No matter how much I put my mind to it, I will never be a fighter pilot or an astronaut, because I am so nearsighted.  

Answer 7

Yes I believe this. The reason why is, I think if you want to do something really bad, then that is who you are. But you have to be dedicated.

Answer 8

Yes. You gotta commit. You aren't going to commit if you don't really want it.

Answer 9

    (Only)  Possibly.

   Because i (possibly many others too)think that

  when i try my best against the irresistable so-called outside world(including all that it is),i find that(sometimes)its not failure i acknowledge but rather sympathy that that world is intractable;static-like,or "leaden";a bit like those poor people of pompey who were turned-to-stone.

And thus,being a modest recipiant of Popper's teaching(sir,  karl popper)i can say that critical change should occur in our beautiful-but-mass-world;And some of these Popper-ian changes will be,rather,automatic,in that i for one will not "see them coming",so to speak.

Which obviously then puts a negative slant on my answer above.But then,in a critical world,this should be obvious too.