Do the math and you can do anything

In the age of clipper ships and bodices and Jules Verne, stepping on the moon was pure fantasy. A century later, it was in the newspapers. How does the transition from magic to manifest take place? Do the math and you can do anything.

Another way to say it: figure it out. Figure can mean a numeral, a picture, or a body. As a verb it is more potent. To figure is to believe, to calculate, and ultimately to appear. It is imagination, a willing mind, and manifestation.

Want to learn to paint/sew/write? It will take time. Say 500 hours. Where will you find those hours? Perhaps you have two per day. That’s 10 hours a week. Do the math and you have your still life/romper/screenplay in under a year.

Every audacious journey is the sum of modest steps. It’s not rocket science, except when it is.