Som Bathla Quotes

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.” ~ Zig Ziglar

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create

once your brain is filled with all these negative emotions, you don’t really have a space to think anything other than a vicious cycle of negative thinking only. All creative people are joyful and positive about life.

Developing ideas is also like building muscles. If you want to build muscles, you work out with heavier weights and stretch your muscles.

That’s what procrastination does. It gives you enough time to consider divergent ideas, to think in non-linear ways, and to make unexpected moves.

Here is the key. Procrastination is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it becomes a virtue for creativity.

Stay relaxed and wait for your Eureka moment. It will come at a time and places generally when you least expect it to come.

Often, we already have the answers to our problems, but we don’t quiet ourselves enough to see the solutions bubbling just below the surface.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” ~Gandhi

Belief is not merely a vital part of any major accomplishment; rather, belief is EVERYTHING before you take even the first step in any direction.

If you don’t believe (or maybe you don’t’ want to believe) that you can climb the Mount Everest, you won’t take any action.

You don’t always need to run around and struggle finding your purpose. Sometime your life’s purpose is just under your nose.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. ~ Mark Twain

Acquire knowledge. Acquire skills. They weigh nothing, and you can carry them with you all your life." ~ Ruskin Bond

But beware. When it comes to the question of why should you do it? No one else can help you out. It’s only you who can answer that question. And the only way is to keep asking yourself what to do.

While we are awake, our brain works in Beta brainwaves, which is not an ideal condition for ideas to come up. To generate creativity, you need a calmer and relaxed state of mind that comes with Alpha brainwaves.

Instruct - Instruct your subconscious mind to find the answer. Incubate - Now, leave the problem aside - don’t work on the problem, go and do something else. Maybe take a shower or go on vacations, etc. Eureka- the moment will jump out of air suddenly, and you will be supplied with the great idea that can transform your life.

बहुत अधिक स्पष्ट सोच के लिए एक व्यक्ति को एकांत के नियमित समय की व्यवस्था करनी चाहिए, जब वे ध्यान केंद्रित कर सकते हैं और विचलित हुए बिना कल्पना कर सकते हैं।

The box of our mind is designed by involuntary influences (almost most of the times) of our parents, teachers, immediate friend circle, the society we live in or the religion we follow, since our childhood till we start to live independently financially.

Most of the decisions we make for our every day matters, as well as important life decisions, are strongly affected by the ingrained belief system due to years or decades of social conditioning.

if you are born and brought up in a family that believes in taking life as an adventure, and about experimenting, you will think life as a journey of exploration.

Majority of the people live their entire life thinking “inside the box” only

the pre-conditioned thinking mode only.

How Thinking Inside the Box kills Growth

Thinking digital in the wave of the internet was definitely an out-of-the-box thinking approach by Netflix.

Most people mistakenly believe that not all people are capable of thinking creatively- they think that some people have their brain designed that way that they think differently, while most people can’t think beyond what they can see.

But neuroscience and advancement of technology have proven that each of us is equipped with the required machinery in our brains to do out-of-box-thinking.

She described L-mode as basically a verbal, analytic, sequential mode of thinking, and R-mode as basically visual, perceptual, and global.

Study a variety of literature.

Don’t always stick to reading something that is related to your profession or industry only.

Select your reading material carefully.

You should be cautioned that you don’t merely slip into reading what solely entertains you instead of educating you.

Take notes while reading: Write notes everywhere in the book to identify and distinguish different facts.

Read biographies:

Read how to books on different subjects:

Read magazines on a variety of subjects like science, business, politics, fashion, and others to get an idea of the current trends in different industries.

If you are into business, try to hire people who are successful in other industries. They

Attend as many business conferences, seminars or events as you can, related to your profession

Do Content Analysis: You need to analyze the different form of content passing through your desk or otherwise. Here is how you should do content analysis:

Scan your junk mails before discarding

When you are traveling or on the road, look for different newspapers, magazines, local radio stations.

This will give you a perspective on the local trends, business opportunities, people’s lifestyle, some better marketing or advertising approach. Later on, you can use them in your area.

Therefore, feeding your mind is the first step to pump your mind. This is the foundational work, and you can’t generate any ideas if you don’t have enough information stored in your head currently.

Idea Fusion to Generate Idea Babies

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

We give them a turn, and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

Was Facebook a brand new earth-shattering idea?

No, there were already Friendster and Myspace. But Facebook made a different combination of features, user interface, and engagement algorithms that made them a highly profitable business idea.

Was Google a novel idea to become a hit in 1996 as a search engine?

No, Lycos (1993) and Yahoo (1994) and few others were pre-existing. But again, Google applied some more improvements over the previous ones. For example, adding the feature of filtering out the relevancy and utility from the user’s perspective and adding some other features available, so it became a grand success.

It’s not always a brand new innovative idea that flourishes versus the people who make improvements over the previous innovations.

Rather, the people or companies who improve on the existing projects get better chances of success.

There was a case study done on 50 different products to compare the failure rate amongst the startups, who were the first movers, i.e., who created an entirely new product or market, and the improvers who introduced something different and better than the original movers. The study concluded that the first movers had an average failure rate of 47%, as compared to the improvers, whose failure rate was 8% only.

Also, logistically, it's much easier to improve on somebody else's idea than it is to create something entirely new from scratch. Therefore, to be creative thinker, you don't have to be first. You just have to be different and better.

How fusion of different idea works?

It’s a great example of synthesizing ideas and relationship between unrelated things – like a chair, wheel, and basket and combining them to form a moving shopping cart.

Let’s take another real-life example. Scott Adams, author of How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big,

Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that.

When you become a master of two worlds (say, engineering and business), you can bring them together in a way that will a) introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before, and b) create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life.

Generating ideas is the capacity to synthesize rather than to analyze. It’s all about seeing the relationship between unrelated things;

to see the broad pattern instead of seeing the specific answers, and to invent something new by combining something that wasn’t paired by someone else earlier.

while the left hemisphere is more responsible for doing analytical work.

One of the best ways to fuse ideas is to do it by way of mind mapping, a technique invented by Tony Buzan, a brain expert, and author.

mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information. A mind map is hierarchical and shows relationships among pieces of the whole. It is created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank page (i.e., your key challenge), to which representations of ideas such as images, words, and parts of words are added as branches to the central idea.

You begin with your challenge or problem and start drawing branches of interconnected ideas related to that topic that can be shown as words or images.

Once you have multiple ideas appearing on paper in front of you, you start to build connection, and this will help you come out with a unique combination that you couldn’t have thought of, had you not been able to see all of them together at one place.

Do SCAMPER to get Loads of Ideas Instantly The SCAMPER method offers you a checklist for idea-spurring questions. It provides a structured way of assisting students to think out of the box.

Bob Eberle in his book, SCAMPER: Games for Imagination Development.

S = Substitute something C =Combine it with something else A = Adapt something to it M = Modify or Magnify it P = Put it to some different use E = Eliminate something R = Reverse Engineer it.

How to use SCAMPER Technique Step 1: You have to isolate your challenge into different parts or stages. Step 2: After that, apply each of the seven elements of the SCAMPER method to each of the stages of your project for asking questions and generating ideas.

Researching a café franchise or brand

Negotiating a good deal with the franchisor and sign the agreement.

Finding out the best location for your business and getting the best deal for lease.

Advertising and inviting customers to visit your café.

Actually, your mind has an unlimited potential that needs to be tapped by asking the right set of questions and the SCAMPER method does the very same thing by asking different set of questions in an intelligent manner. SCAMPER offers subtle cues or triggers that trigger your mind to come out with various alternatives.

How to implement SCAMPER in your personal or work life?

After you have finalized the project, divide the project into as many small steps as it makes sense to do in a way that each step can be ascertained separately.

Now, take any one stage of your important project and apply each of the SCAMPER questions on that step, and keep noting down different ideas on your note pad or laptop.

How Multi-tasking This Way Improves Creativity

there is a different type of multi-tasking that is in fact recommended when it comes to giving space to let the creative thinking emerge.

fact, Einstein always kept working on different types of projects at the same time. He used to start multiple projects as they came to his mind. However, he worked long enough on one project and then used to take a break from one project and then started to work on a different project.

Take another example. Michael Crichton, the director and producer of movie Jurassic Park, worked on the movie and alongside that, he wrote novels and one more non-fiction book. What’s happening here?

how does slow multi-tasking helps get more done?

Here are the reasons: It helps them keep working on other projects if they get stuck in one project, and that way, they keep making progress in another project.

Switching between different projects slowly satisfies the need of novelty for the human brain.

Also, this type of slow multi-tasking is like cross training of our mind.

Also, if you can learn to do one thing well, it helps you to do other things also well.

Therefore, if we want to do something in a much better way, we should often get disconnected with the main project for some time.

You never know when you get excited about a different thing in your life, and then those creative insights sparked through you will turn out to be a treasure.

How should you apply this technique to your life?

During your walking session, keep walking and think about the projects that you started earlier in life, but quitted sooner without giving your full shot to those projects.

An hour worth of walk is something that will sweat you out physically and stretch you mentally as well.

Now, you need to draw a mind map of different projects branching out from the center in a way that you could draw out various sub-branches as well. For example, your branches could be:

Your contribution to the society Physical Health. Children growth-related projects Your long desires for creating something that will contribute to the world. And many more, as you can think of.

Now, once you have listed some projects, take a few different color markers or pens and start highlighting with different colors with different categories,

Become an Idea Machine- Set up Daily Idea Quota

As I emphasized in the previous section, you need to have a clear problem and convert it into a challenge before you can invite new ideas. Therefore, the kind of ideas should be related to your core problems.

In the world of creativity, the greater the number of ideas, the better your choice will be. Quantity of ideas will lead to quality of ideas.

shows that the best ideas often come to us while doing nothing and just letting the mind reel and think whatever comes. In other words, big ideas pop up out of boredom.

Neuroscientists and psychologists have been doing their research on the subject, and they discovered that while we are getting bored, it activates the default mode network of the brain. In fact, there are two different types of network in the brain: Active Network Default Mode Network (DMN)