A great pitch convinces others; a great vision makes persuasion obsolete.

A pitch depends on the listener’s approval. A vision depends only on its own gravity.

Most people try to persuade because they secretly doubt. They assemble arguments, statistics, and narratives, hoping to overcome resistance through volume and logic. But persuasion is a symptom of weakness, not strength. When an idea is truly alive, it exerts force by existing. Its coherence, its clarity, its inevitability—these make resistance irrelevant. People do not need to be convinced; they simply recognize that there is no alternative.