Cali isn't dumb. He's just allowed (because of the environment he lives in) people to slowly curb how he thinks. It happens to us as well. You're a product (to an extent) of your environment.
It's like a child- if every day you tell that child "you're stupid" and reinforce that for 15 years, that kid will grow to believe he or she is stupid. It's not the child's fault. The child could very well be smart as a whip. But the child will BELIEVE it's stupid and thus, do things a stupid person would do.
Now, do you convince the kid to be SMART by telling it every day for the next 15 years to "stop acting stupid"? No.
You're simply reinforcing that the kid IS stupid.
You have to slowly convince the kid that he's smart. Make sense?
Right now you're all telling Cali how stupid he is for not seeing the world through the proper lense.
Try this instead--
"If the Mountain won't go to Mohammed, then Mohammed must come to the Mountain".
It's like a child- if every day you tell that child "you're stupid" and reinforce that for 15 years, that kid will grow to believe he or she is stupid. It's not the child's fault. The child could very well be smart as a whip. But the child will BELIEVE it's stupid and thus, do things a stupid person would do.
Now, do you convince the kid to be SMART by telling it every day for the next 15 years to "stop acting stupid"? No.
You're simply reinforcing that the kid IS stupid.
You have to slowly convince the kid that he's smart. Make sense?
Right now you're all telling Cali how stupid he is for not seeing the world through the proper lense.
Try this instead--
"If the Mountain won't go to Mohammed, then Mohammed must come to the Mountain".