{"id":2605,"date":"2014-05-24T08:41:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T12:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2014-05-19T16:49:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T20:49:02","slug":"reinventing-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2014\/05\/reinventing-the-wheel.html","title":{"rendered":"Reinventing the wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Student of the Year spoke at the college graduation I attended last Saturday. He told his peers that he had reinvented himself when he came to college. \u201cI was unpopular and detached in High School,\u201d he said. \u201cI decided to change my attitude and broaden my horizons when I came to college.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few seconds of confusion filled the air. No one could imagine this Student of the Year as ever being anything but involved in a multitude of clubs, mentoring, working, and volunteering constantly.<\/p>\n

Comparing the old with the new, he said, \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid of the unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Granted, the graduation ceremony was full of clich\u00e9s. But it reminded me of the clich\u00e9, \u201cWe don\u2019t need to reinvent the wheel.\u201d If a class curriculum works, leave it. If a book is good, leave it. If the diet works, don\u2019t change it.<\/p>\n

However, even the wheel has been reinvented.<\/p>\n

Researchers agree that the wheel was invented about 3500 BC. But, the sophisticated mind can detect wheels back in the Paleolithic era (15,000 to 750,000 years ago), when humans used logs to move large loads around.<\/p>\n

The Egyptians are credited with the first spoked wooden wheel on their chariots about 2000 BC. Iron rims were seen on Celtic chariots in 1000 BC.<\/p>\n

\"wheeli,<\/a>Then there was a lull. From 1000 BC until the 19th<\/sup> century, wheels stayed the same. This must be when the clich\u00e9 \u201cwe don\u2019t need to reinvent the wheel\u201d got stuck in people\u2019s heads.<\/p>\n

But, for more than a century, the wheel clich\u00e9 is not being feared or followed. The need for faster transportation and the idea of using less material contributed to wheel reinvention in the 19th<\/sup> century and throughout the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

The wire tension spoke became the pneumatic tire. Another reinvention was the addition of hard rubber. Later, carbon was added to the rubber and the wheel\/tires lasted longer. Then carbonless rubber. In 1926 and 1927 the steel welded-spoke wheels were invented. Disc wheels were prompted by their lower costs.<\/p>\n

For as often as the wheel has been reinvented, it\u2019s safe to say the benefit of being unafraid to change our attitude and broaden our horizons is okay. Plus we get the potters wheel, the ferris wheel…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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