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19 blocks of life you should consider
Here are some of the key blocks. I figured out based on my experience and observation in life that you should consider
Design is a soft landing into the future
If you want to arrive to the future you desire for your career, learning, business or life, you have to design a detailed map to reach it safely. Imagine a redesign of public transportation systems to seamlessly integrate with future autonomous vehicles.
Misconception leads to missing opportunities
Whenever you have a wrong perception about certain things you have a missing opportunities. For example; failure is a sign of weakness, networking is only about getting something or you're too old to learn new things.
Creativity as skill is on the rise, learn what is creativity
Creativity is not art, creativity is a process. Starts from a curious questioning mind, a desire to understand something better. Persistence fuels that curiosity, allowing us to delve deeper and explore possibilities. It plays a role in problem solving, engineering, business and everyday life.
Discovery exercise is tool to see how the future will unfold
Its an important phase whether you want to start a business, improve or solve your business challenges. You can use it in your personal life too. Gather information, analyze insights, find opportunities, validate needs, and decide whether to proceed. If you do, your future will unfold with confidence
Governments may unbundle its entity just like businesses
Life goes through cycles; things from the past make a comeback, like fashion, product design, or certain behaviours. Businesses also go through cycles of bundling and unbundling services and products. For example, Craigslist was once a one-stop shop for everything, but it eventually unbundled into specialized businesses, such as standalone sites for finding rental homes.
Intuition is faster than logic for making progress in innovation
Intuition is the fruition of your past experiences, that it presents itself in one shot in the moment of need. Business leaders, scientist and many more who relied on their intuition have reached innovative solutions or breakthrough fasters than those who relied on pure logic.
Your body is capped to certain strength but your mind ability isn't
The brain has greater ability than your body. look at the world around you. it call came from the mind as an idea and translated into reality.
Planning is a surface level work, It works for coordinating things
One of the worst thing is to tell your mind let’s plan. It makes you think in a logical sequence way for the future. Once you execute, you will run into list of issues.
Understanding is an effort-based exercise, not a comprehension
It starts by listening with empathy and focus and carried by questioning, analyzing and making sense.
Power is moving from money and media to tech, money and media
Money and media was the power. Now, the bar is higher, the sophisticated the technical technology the more power added to money and media.
Companies need more design strategists to continue sailing safely
The era of generalists and business analysts is done. with today’s and tomorrow’s market, design strategists are your navigators to navigate evolving markets, prioritize user needs, drive innovation, and achieve sustainable growth.
Adopt design in everything you do; it’s not about colors and shapes
Design a deep and detailed way of thinking, assessing and uncovering what the full picture need in order to create a seamless success.
A mind's operating system deteriorate like the system you create
Everything age and may come to an end. our ability to think and function diminish at certain age so are the systems we create to organize life, business, social and public institutions.
With your skills and value you can acquire equity if you don't have cash
Instead of buying a business or starting with an idea, you find early startup, provide value to grow it, improve it and scale it for percentage of equity.
Transformation requires a set of change across things in your organism
99% of people think transformation is by changing a habit, part, taking one action or any thing, so by doing so they will see what they desire. when transformation is doing other things related to that core so they see the result they hope for over time.
Market is taking different styles constantly, being relevant is the strategy
The market is more like a fashion, changes overtime. and to stay ahead you have to look relevant to your customers.
Turn your mind to creative system, to deal with event with what you have
You have to deal with events with whatever you have. adapt to the situation to solve a problem or get things done.
Pain points aren't always the answers to solutions, and old isn't alway gold
Dig deeper than the obvious problem and old expertise aren’t always gold to provide you with the solution.
Thinking requires a shovel, strength and patience to dig deep and reach gold
You have to be patient with thinking if you want to think right or at least reach closer distance to the right thing. We are lazy human beings. we respond immediately by default.
Thanks for reading!
Ahmed
PS two things I can help you with:
Exploring and defining the strategic direction, objectives, and key elements to achieve market relevance. uncover opportunities, understand user needs, and design solutions that align with business goals.
Guide you and help you on a project you’re working on; need help to set direction to reach desired outcomes.