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Recently there was this update on twitter from EPMSolutions :

Anything you’ve never done before is difficult.

So I replied with a small change:

Anything you’ve never done before is an opportunity to innovate.

Now, why I say this? First of all because you have the opportunity to confront that ‘anything’ with no preconceived ideas or concepts. (By the way I truly believe seeing things from the perspective of a child is a great way to capture the true essence of such things).

When you have a logic behind everything you do it will dictate the path you take, I am not saying it is a bad thing, but it certainly limits your view of the world in front of you. In a lot of cases it is necessary to discern from what makes sense to what is pure gibberish. And in most situations that logic is the product of doing something over and over again.

As such this knowledge, that has been gathered, constructed, accumulated over time, will most likely have an impact to the end result of what you are doing, hence making it more predictable, reducing entropy and finally in the long run: boring.

And when you find yourself in a boring place, you (maybe) want to try on to new things, things you have never done before. And if you do I say: put all that knowledge and logic behind you and tackle this new challenge with a fresh and clean mind, I say question everything AND accept the possibility of any path.

When in front of a new challenge you have the opportunity to take on to new ideas, new outcomes, you can defy what has been established and take old paradigms down.

Ah, this of course entitles some risk, you might end up appearing as the one who does not understand why we do thing the way we do them, or as a radical that will bring chaos and confusion.  And it might be true, but you should not let those ideas plague your mind and cut you off of being creative and propose new (even extravagant) paths for that thing you have never done before.

Ideas, as everything else that is worth reading, are welcome