Moving from Impossible to Possible

I came across this powerful true story and wanted to share it with you. 

George Danzig was a grad student in mathematics at a time when jobs were very difficult to obtain in the United States.

His math professor, who was the head of the mathematics department, told the grad students that whoever got the best grade on the final exam could be hired as his research assistant for the next year.

This job was a plum job. Everybody wanted it. George said he studied so hard for the test that he stayed up until the middle of the night, overslept, and was late for the test.

But he got there in time to take the test, was handed the test, and went to the back of the room. As he answered the eight math questions, he got through them fairly easily. Then he looked up on the blackboard, and there were two more problems on the board. He copied them down, and he began to work on those two problems, but–he couldn’t solve them.

He began thinking, “Somebody in this room would solve these problems. What’s wrong with me?” He kept working on the problems. He couldn’t solve them, and by the end of the time allowed, some of the students asked for additional time to work.

The professor said they could take the test home and bring it back by Friday. So George, too, asked for more time. He was told to bring the test back by Friday.

George went home and stayed up night after night. This was Monday. All day Tuesday. Tuesday night. Wednesday and Wednesday night.

He kept thinking somebody would solve these. Why not me? Why not me?  Finally, by Thursday morning he had one of them solved. Then he kept working–late into Thursday night, and on Friday morning–he solved the second one.

He took the test back and turned it in by eleven a.m., the deadline. He went home, wondering what would happen. Sunday morning at seven a.m., there was a knock, knock, knock at his door.

He jumps out of bed. It’s his professor.
His professor says, “George, you’ve made mathematical history! I was thinking on the way over here–you were late to the test, right?”

George said, “Well yeah, did I do something wrong?”

“No,” the professor said, “It’s just that the eight questions were the test. But you missed what I told everybody at the beginning of class that morning. I told them I’ve had such a great time teaching all of you. And if you want to have fun for the rest of your life, these two questions on the board are the two unsolved math questions that even Einstein himself went to his grave unable to solve. So, George. . . How did you do this?”

George thought a moment and recounted, “If I’d heard ahead of time that no one has been able to solve those problems, my way of defining my relationship to those two problems would have been so different. I suppose I would not have made myself available to access the solution within me.

What is impressive is that the same access to overcome the impossible is within every one of us.

I don’t know what you’re facing, but I know this about you: You are connected to the Infinite. You have the power and potential to BE everything you want to be, to give everything you want to give. . . and to build a life you truly love!

Please Know this–there is always a solution available for any problem you may be facing.

Your job is to stay open to those possibilities. . . 

Thanks for reading. 
Be Well, 
~Paula

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