To be a first in any endeavor is almost anyone's goal. For most of us, it means that you are on top of the others who race against you in that certain field. Of course, being the first in a negative criterion would be a different story.
Think of all the credits you'll earn in becoming the first in a particular field. Mathematicians and scientists who discover something new will have the privilege of etching their names in history. For them, that would be the greatest honor a man of science can have in a lifetime. Newton's Laws, Einstein's Theory, Pythagorean Theorem, Euler's Formula! Who would not want to have his name listed in such way someday? And that all is due to the fact that each of these men was the first to formulate, propose, or discover those concepts in science.
He discovered everything.
The race to being the first has gone quite far in the minds of determined people that eventually most of them have spent every bit of perseverance they have to outstrip the others. This is not to imply something negative about what has become to some of them in their pursuit for all the credits, and neither is it some commentary about things as such. Of course, these people, about a perfect percent of them, are doing these also because of their passion for their crafts. An example of this is the 7-year research of Andrew Wiles when he tried and successfully proved the centuries-old last conjecture of mathematician Pierre de Fermat, turning it into the present Fermat's Last Theorem.
At the root of every mathematics of the time, one very simple property of numbers will teach everyone a value so essential in anyone's life. The concept of exponents has introduced to us the equality a0=1, for any real number value of a. The simplicity of this expression is as simple as its proof, yet it signifies a symbolism that is root to all success of every human endeavor.
"Every human endeaaaaaaaavor."
Every dreaming person is taught to keep his feet on the ground, I mean figuratively. There have been a lot of persons who rose up in their statuses and fell back to where they came from because some braggart bug has made its way into their minds. If dreams are built like buildings are, then humility is the cement that adheres every piece of them. We are witness to some public figures' fall because of their arrogance. Humility is essential.
Dreams are meant just to be at arms' length. And if they seem to be so far away, then all you have to do is stretch your arms and not raise yourself any higher. This is the symbolism signified by the equation I have mentioned earlier. At any higher power, a number becomes far from one. But at an exponent of zero, regardless of the value of a number to be raised, the answer is a constant unity. Zero symbolizes humility.
The clouds above us, the dreams we're chasing of being number one --- all of them can be reached through stretching out our arms and not forgetting to stick our feet consistently on the ground. That even makes us safe from falling.
"Dreeeeeams! Uh-oh..."
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