Opportunity

“Opportunities are only recognized in hindsight”

Contrary to popular beliefs, opportunity is not something for us to find out, or for it to come knocking on our door. Opportunity, just like purpose, meaning, and destiny is something that we must create and cultivate on our own.

Statements such as missed opportunity, or looking to find opportunity are all incorrect social and popular fallacies that mislead people in how to deal with and understand opportunity. An opportunity can only be recognized as an opportunity in hindsight and by looking back at the event or the process; and it is reliant on personal intent and action. If we took action and it resulted in a positive-outcome, we will consider it an opportunity; likewise, if we didn’t take action and it resulted in a positive-outcome for others we call it a missed opportunity. However, if we did take an action and the result was negative, we don’t call it an opportunity, we call it a mistake or, even, bad-luck.

This is why Theory of Self-Relativity advocates and teaches factual-thinking so that we can see through even popularly used and “accepted as truths” fallacies that many base their lives on. As further stated in Theory of Self-Relativity:

“Opportunities are created by the opportunist.”