The U.S. Government spent billions of dollars attempting to land on the moon. Many people complained that the money should have been spent on poverty.
Randy Pausch once responded,
“When you use money to fight poverty, it can be of great value, but too often, you’re working at the margins. When you’re putting people on the moon, you’re inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved.”
Our greatest breakthroughs happen when we aren’t focusing on the issue at hand, but instead broadcasting our most ambitious goals.
By working on things that fascinate us, we create industries that don’t yet exist and solve problems we never imagined possible.