Do you agree that you cannot achieve what you cannot conceive?

Answer 1

yes, if you don't think you can, you can't, or won't.

Answer 2

Yes you can achieve things you say you cannot conceive. There are so many things out there for one to achieve. Sometimes you cant to conceive them but in the meantime You enjoyed achieving the concept of something you could conceive. So what you didnt win the lottery but you at least matched a couple of numbers and won 5 or 10 bucks. You have fun achieving the chance to try and win alot. To conceive or get something for nothing is not achieving..Its really deep down inside someone who really wants to achieve(work hard) who in the end is the one who conceives or wins in the end.

Answer 3

You can achieve without conceiving. You've been given an example by another poster.

But, in addition, I have found spiritual achievement and advancement without the slightest notion before-hand. It came to me as an epiphany.

And then I could conceive it and become enlightened. So in this case, conceiving occurred after the achievement.

Answer 4

This might only be true in very general sense of the meanings, as where so much emphasis is placed upon the importance of visualization in all programmes of personal development; it is hardly a scientific fact that what we get in life is entirely conception dependant. I think our ability to conceive an idea, a thing, a desirable situation, or a certain outcome, first and foremost, creates a want in us, whereupon the rest of the faculties of our mind are engaged for the purpose of fulfilment of that want, or in order to actualise that concept.

There might be more chances in the probability of achieving things we manage to keep at the top of our mind most of the time. But there is no guarantee that what we could conceive, even in the finest of details, is what we would achieve in the end; there is no hard and bound rule connecting our ability to conceive with our actual achievements. There, however, is a positive link.

I would like to consider, for instance, the elements of surprise and luck in our life. How often do we come across situations, both profitable and harmful, even the remotest possibilities of which we never had in our mind? Then what about the reality of the gift of conception itself? Is it not wonderful that we are able to conceive many ideas, dreams about many things, the things undreamt of in our life before, where do these ideas, dreams and notions come from at the first place?

I think there are many things so wonderfully powerful in life that they bring along with them concepts previously unknown to us. Without setting out our goals clearly without any conceptual basis to our planning, we might not be able to do something objectively. But then where do the needs for all these come from to spur us along, to motivate and necessitate things for us? How do we come by the life that we all are? It is just that we have life only once, and then we spend the rest of it trying to conceive an idea of it – what is it?

Answer 5

Sorry, I can't completely agree. An example would be a wood carver or an abstract artist (which I believe to be a cover-up for lack of talent, oops). These people quite often let the material "guide" them. To conceive an idea to soon can stifle the "artistic" process. Also, I think there have been too many ideas and inventions that were developed while looking for something completely different. Many of these conceptions have proved to be "earth-shattering"(though, not always better for the earth).

Answer 6

I completely agree that you can't achieve what you can't conceive. Everything in life begins with thought.

Answer 7

Of course you cannot achieve what you cannot conceive, because why would I want something that is not within my reach.

Answer 8

I mostly agree, but there are also those things that
you stumble upon by chance, things you never
could have conveived of and that turn out to be
suitable for achievement. Great surprises in the
unfolding fabric of a life.

Answer 9

I am not certain, however I do believe that what the mind can conceive it can achieve.

Answer 10

conceive : c.1280, from stem of O.Fr. conceveir, from L. concipere (pp. conceptus) "to take in and hold," from com- intensive prefix + comb. form of capere "to take," from PIE *kap- "to grasp" (see capable). Originally "take (seed) into the womb, become pregnant," sense of "take into the mind" is from c.1340.

No, I don't think so. If a woman cannot conceive a child she can have children (adopting them).
As for the figurative senses it is quite the same: I cannot conceive (take hold, mastering ...) the idea of God in its wholeness, yet I can achieve a sort of feeling ... a partial perception of God even in this earthly life.

Answer 11

No.

Infants cannot conceive of developing object permanence (nor a whole host of other cognitive skills). Nevertheless, they achieve it.

Many adults have "stumbled" onto inventions and discoveries, as well (not having first pre-conceived them).