Innovate , dare to be different

If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.“

 Effective Questions

Creativity requires an inquisitive mind. "Fresh, creative thoughts don't grow in the dry soil of mindless acceptance. Yet it is easy to go through your day without calling anything important into question." Effective learning questions can serve as a starting point for the assimilation of learning. Ask "why?" and "what if?" questions and develop "what-if" scenarios to discover new opportunities around you.

Find the Difference that Makes the Difference

If two situations or processes seem very similar but have different outcomes, it is important to look for any differences between them, and then to find out which of those differences is the key to the different outcome. Contrastive analysis is a tool that helps you to find out what differences make the difference and, thus, tells you where you need to take action. In contrastive analysis, you are contrasting similarities and differences between one situation and another to find the difference that is significant.

How to Succeed in Life:

1. Dare to be different.
2. Be passionate.
3. Be curious.
4. Be creative in everything you do.
5. Innovate.
6. Deconstruct the old, build something new.
7. Be the disruptive change in a boring industry.
8. Change the game.
9. Don't play by the rules.
10. Stand apart from the crowd.

"Even one single person can see something from several perspectives, depending on the moment, because life changes and everything is different. We don't have a single way of being, we have several - and just as every moment is different, every person in our lives is different, depending on the moment; just as life changes and we are part of it, life is part of us as well, and we have different perceptions depending on the state of our souls. You perceive life in one way when you think positively and in a different way when you think negatively. Now is the time to become aware, to remember that we are different and to avoid the reductionist thinking that says simply making a difference is enough. Difference is regarded from the perspective of those who now understand that, as a founding principle of the intention to build a better world, this isn't the difference as a concept relating to comparison, but difference as a conceptual basis to discover the uniqueness of every man."

"Think of yourself as being a many-roomed house, in which you can find resources, potential and fragments of your being, but your inner doors close more and more each passing day, pushed by the wind coming through from the outside. We don't want our doors to be locked because of the things that happen around us. We want to be ourselves, to be different, we don't want to be the way today's society teaches us to be, the way it almost makes us be. We want to have the courage to leave the doors to our heart open. We want to differ from stereotypes. We want to have beautiful, peaceful people around us, different people, not sad people who forget about themselves, who forget they exist, who ignore the fact that we only have one life, and that this life was given to us by the divinity with a precise purpose."