#foresight
It had been a braw week in the wild west Highlands of Scotland, albeit a wee bit on the chilly side, and Algy and his little green dragon friend had made the most of the unusually fine spring sunshine, for the weather ahead did not look so good… in fact the forecast suggested that it was about to start raining, and would then continue non-stop, in dense Scotch mist, until Wednesday of next week…
But for the moment all was bright and beautiful, and even tolerably warm at ground level, which caused the little green dragon to emit a happy orange glow as he chatted with Algy among the pretty spring flowers. As Algy looked at the primroses around them, he remembered an odd little poem by William Wordsworth, and - wondering whether his funny wee friend had ever eaten strawberries - he anticipated what he fervently hoped would be a bountiful strawberry harvest in months to come, even though he had observed that the strawberry plants in his assistants’ garden were not even thinking about flowering just yet…
Pull the primrose, sister Anne!
Pull as many as you can.
–Here are daisies, take your fill;
Pansies, and the cuckoo-flower:
Of the lofty daffodil
Make your bed, or make your bower;
Fill your lap, and fill your bosom;
Only spare the strawberry-blossom!
Primroses, the Spring may love them–
Summer knows but little of them:
Violets, a barren kind,
Withered on the ground must lie;
Daisies leave no fruit behind
When the pretty flowerets die;
Pluck them, and another year
As many will be blowing here.
God has given a kindlier power
To the favoured strawberry-flower.
Hither soon as spring is fled
You and Charles and I will walk;
Lurking berries, ripe and red,
Then will hang on every stalk,
Each within its leafy bower;
And for that promise spare the flower!
[Algy is quoting most of the poem Foresight by the 19th century English poet William Wordsworth.]
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. - Walter Scott
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. - Mark 11:24
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. - Zig Ziglar
How blessed is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding. For her profit is better than the profit of silver and her gain better than fine gold. She is more precious than jewels; and nothing you desire compares with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. - Proverbs 3:13 - 3:16
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. - Henry Ward Beecher
Health is a state of complete mental, social and physical well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. - World Health Organization, 1948
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. - Jack Kerouac
Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful! - Jennifer Young
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. - Dalai Lama
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. - H. G. Wells
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. - Gail Devers
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it’s a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free. - Charles R. Swindoll
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Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways. - Alexander Volkov
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what. - Andy Warhol
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. - Anaïs Nin
If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. - John Steinbeck
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. - Wayne Dyer
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. - Steve Jobs
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. - Jack Kerouac
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The real event has, at first, taken place in a certain sense ex nihilo, unforeseeably; only afterward does one comprehend its possibility. This is the temporal paradox, the inverted time, which characterizes the event as such. Such an event knows no foreseeability, since for this it would have to have been regarded as possible, and if this foresight had succeeded, it would not have taken place.
–Baudrillard, “The Event”
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Foresight(预见). Jiang Pengyi (蒋鹏奕). Photography. 2019.
Jiang Pengyi is an artist based in Beijing, China. Their work exists mostly in the mediums of video and photography, and aim to create “a kind of surreal spectacle and delicate narration of the scene…to reveal the barriers and confusions of the individuals”. Their work has won accolades such as the Aletti ArtVerona Prize for Photography, the Jury Grand Price from the Société Générale Chinese Art Awards and the Tierney Fellowship Award.
Foresights is an exhibition of photographic experiments that Jiang has been working on since 2014. Key to Foresights is the concept of “demeditation”, which Jiang deals with in this work by trying to get rid of external limitations within his photography - including cameras, lenses, and shooting techniques as much as the subjective identity of the artist or subject.
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Here in this simple drawing I illustrated the principle of this issue I call “The Car Dilemma”. It’s not so much about the car or cars, but it’s about ideas and how we learn to accept them, because even if they are great they might not be ready to be used or properly explained. Yet.
The car above (Fig.1) represents the futuristic design we will see in the ahead probably ten or twenty years from now. But then again, it can be anything else than a car; while the bottom one (Fig.2) represents a much more familiar shape we already know.
So, from these two design what do we get? Ideas, concepts, products, come in two shapes: things we don’t know and things we already know. It can be displayed as something which is undiscovered facing what is already discovered. These two are part of our conscious mind which catalogs familiar shapes from those we are yet to understand.
We perfectly know Fig.2 and its familiar shape and content, yet we observe Fig.1 as an exotic pet we admire but unsure what to do with it. Just like for any creation we initially tend to take a much more original route and come out with avant-garde ideas, just like Fig.1. However, we progress through the thinking process of exposing such creation to the public and things come to a change.
Even if the car above is what we need to go ahead with, the one below is the most common chosen by us for fear of the unknown. It’s already accepted form and we think it might work for us. This dilemma shows how the reasoning system works among society: we abandon our potential thinking for new and bold ideas, so we can live in a comfortable and collective comfort zone.
It’s always a challenge to define the business model of the future. What will come next might be predictable within a certain amount of degrees, looking back to previous trends and then creating the forecast. That’s how we study the weather and tell how hot or cold tomorrow will be.
However, one thing for sure is how we can structure such model and create successful systems. We can start by rationalizing (and admitting) that in the workforce across all levels, we have creative and conservative individuals that are very good in their field, and are best when placed within their own environment because that’s the climate they will come out with great ideas or make important decisions.
If you are afraid of change you run the high and probable risk of remaining behind in innovation with all the consequences that come. You will face situations that have the power to take your business away or to come so close that it will weaken the knees out of you.
Innovation is the driving force of those business practices that understand the need to adapt, to develop new tools for the present and future, but most importantly to acknowledge the current situation that something might be wrong and needs to be fixed.
Look back at the first years of the 21st century and the expectation people had at the end of 1999: nobody had a clue what the year 2000 would come with. Many were deep worried about Y2K and computer malfunctions coming with the end of the world. It was rubbish from the beginning and worked to pull marketing products like antivirus, useless software, and to sell extra survival equipment.
Yet there was a small group of three people in California who was working night and day to revolve the new millennium. Chad Hurley,Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim built and published Youtube over the hard labor of their creative mindset. They maximized their credit cards in the process to pay for hardware and hosting services, they risked everything believing their hands held the future. They were right and shaped the way we interact and acquire new knowledge via a streaming platform which is now our favorite medium.
What drove their product to success was a creative process that disrupted the status quo of the late 20th century business model. It wasn’t trading or speculative hedge fund that started Youtube; it was the desire of creating something from nothing and developing in something that today means everything: content through data sharing on many platforms.
How much do creative people matter in a business system? Everything. They have the mindset of imagination to start processes from little or nothing, growing and expanding a simple idea into a change in the world: Steve Jobs, Shawn Fanning, J. K. Rowling, are just some of the names that comes off the top of my head. They brought pure and simple innovation across many fields changing the way we go through our daily routine.
Spot the creative individual…
Here we can see the developing pattern of entrepreneurship that has creative people starting business because they can envision leaps ahead. They understand the complexity of the idea and how it will evolve in the medium-long term, including important details that can be accessorized and later become the continuation of the vision. And those who did not bet on creative people found out the hard way too late at a greater cost.
On the other hand the behavior of conservative people fits best the classic system of running the business, because their focus glides through a mindset of analytical decisions and efficiency. That’s why those who are under this profile seek their career development in Wall Street or similar work environments, where precise blocks move in a specific pattern to build the outcome.
IBM understood the need of change and above all the thirst for innovation, so they have been hiring designers to sharpen up their tools instead of stacking up with accountants or software engineers. IBM needed creativity to rise above the status quo in their field. They understood that innovation doesn’t come from individuals who have been sharing the same manger with those who create algorithms or win math competitions, but it comes from those who see well beyond the curb not with binoculars but wit a set of kaleidoscopes.
It’s not that they can’t see the dark side coming, it’s just that the dark side begins to envelop everything. It’s like walking into a fog. The Jedi’s ability to see lessens as the dark side grows.
— George Lucas
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فانظُر بعقلكَ إنَّ العينَ كاذبةٌ
واسمع بقلبكَ إنَّ السمعَ خَوَّانُ،
ولا تقُل كُل ذي عينٍ لهُ نظرٌ
إنَّ الرعاة ترى ما لا يرى الضَّانُ.
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Loosely translated:
See with your mind, as the eyes can be deceiving
Listen with your heart, as your ears may betray you
Not all who have eyes have sight,
A shepherd sees what the herd cannot.
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Inspired by @ahmedtiko, his talented wife Sawsen and the adorable dancing angle he has at home ❤️
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