mind games

Ideas spread through (success) stories, and people share stories they can relate to.

(At least, that’s how it was for me. I’m still at a step no.2, almost touching a step no.3).

How often do we realise that we were wrong? I’d like to capture those moments and look for patterns, and such improve my learning curve.

Researchers are curious. Product managers listen to their users. Entrepreneurs have problems.

The most valuable skill might be learning to learn. How do you learn? 

I do want to spend my life being a good person.

We have edupreneurs (education entrepreneurs), we need artpreneurs.

When knowledge information is a few clicks away, is it still valuable? It’s so easy to ‘find out’, so that we forget to ‘think’. When was the last time you ‘thought’ about something for some time?

The same is with life. We don’t have an eraser. We try things and see what happens.

Is there such a thing as safety zone? I don't think there's. When we're safe, there's nothing to strive for.

The best stories are real. These are the hardest to tell.

“So, what is your story?” - a good way to start a conversation.

Shirley Graham Du Bois

“300 people planting a tree? That’s not impact,” a nonprofits friend today. 

Although, have we ever asked: “What do you need?”.

It’s easy to express opinions on what’s worth building and what’s not. Whom has a right to judge? There’s no good without bad, just like there’s no bad without good. 

My grandpa used to write books. My dad used to paint. My mom used to paint as well. My grandma used to make crafts. Each piece of creation was solo creation. They had interactions with other people of course. That's how they collected stories to tell. But a creation itself was delivered by one person. Can a painting be painted by two or more people? It cannot. A masterpiece is delivered by a master. Would a creator ask feedback and aim to improve it? Not really. A creator would let an audience make a judgement. Often what's stopping us from creating is fear and we look for excuses to not do it today. "Have confidence in creativity" - I read a while ago. See creativity as a bird that needs to fly. "Only by doing a large amount of work you'll become good at it."