In my dream today, I visited Israel to see for myself how this tiny nation achieved everything “Miracle”: Economic miracle, Entrepreneurial miracle, Military miracle, Innovation miracle and Technology miracle within a short period of time, no country on earth ever did that.
Upon my arrival, I went sightseeing to see various developmental and technological advancements of the country.
In real life, I reside close to a General Hospital here in my hometown, I happen to spent my formative and childhood years inside the Hospital. So that hospital exactly appeared to me in Israel- I saw it. What captures my total attention about the hospital was how it practically, structurally and physically changed. I had seen the hospital turned to absolute fascinating green vegetation: thousands of fruit trees were planted –mangoes, banana, apples and all that stuff.
Structural restructuring occurred, different facilities had been changed and the most important which I’d seen was the way children were giving absolute support by their parents and government to “innovate and create”. I saw a teen-age boy tilting a soil with a new tool which I’ve never seen before– maybe it was invented by him.
After my sudden wake up from the middle of my dream, I began to reconcile my conscious and unconscious thoughts. I started to think of how that small country achieved its great success within that short span. First, backing and support of foreign major powers came to my mind of course. Second, visionary leadership and good governance followed. Third, imbibing innovation and creativity spirit to citizens.
In the three major factors I mentioned above I intentionally left out formal education, you know why? You can have a better education when your government provides you with an accessible good Library than a person who attended formal schools. What solidified this point was how the great innovators of human history didn’t attend any formal school. (read: Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Bill Gates et cetera). I don’t want to sound controversial, but I’m not in any way discouraging formal education. Anyway, this is a topic for another day.
In my conscious thoughts, I thought of how the real General Hospital didn’t change for almost twenty years. Even the Panadol extra and Paracetamol we used when we were young was the same thing they use today. Women are dying while given birth, children are also dying due to outdated and poor-running equipments.
