Showing posts with label live curious. Show all posts
Showing posts with label live curious. Show all posts

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Live Curious, Discover; OLO (observe learn observe)

The Ateneo Graduate School of Business Advantage


One of the great things that I learned in the last five years is to live curious (from Discovery channel).  The sense of wonder and exploration must not leave us even at advanced age.   It goes well with Lee Kuan Yew's view (former PM of Singapore) to continue travelling and doing all sorts of things to keep mind sharp to discover new things. Dr Morato in his faculty development lecture for AGSB said OLO:   observe, learn observe.

That is why we encourage our students to ask questions and we try to answer all of them.  One of my greatest fear is when I will not be able to answer their questions.  That gives me creeps and nightmare.  That is why on my part, if I attend a seminar or conference, I ask questions, in public and in private.

However, I learned, as we had briefing for conference to Thailand by early next month, I have warned not to do this anymore.  Reason?   The past team leader censured me for asking questions which he deemed irrelevant, and "did not lead to further discussion" and which the fellows in the school did not look kindly upon.

But this kind of thing will not douse my enthusiasm and make me grow old and conservative.

"New ideas create more and better new products and services; create more wealth."

Saturday, August 13, 2011

BE CURIOUS AND BE INSPIRED - more videoshare from Ecorner of Stanford u

"Innovate or DIE"

LIVE CURIOUS by CEO Jack Dorsey














"New ideas create more and better new products and services; create more wealth."

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Creativity - Starting Point of Innovation

Our mind is the most powerful tool we can use for creativity.It is unlike computers and even more powerful than the best super computers:  consisting of billion neurons with trillions of connections and permutations.  Here are some  of the tips I have read regarding enchancing our creativity:

l.  Be a child again.  Live curious.  The Nat Geo channel keeps repeating this on their channel.  Question everything. Be interested in a lot of things around you.

2. Observe, observe, observe.

3.  Learn, learn, learn, from you experiences especially from the bad ones.  Bad experiences are great teachers. What piss you off give rise to new ideas.

4. Practice. exercise your mind by reading (this is even a preventive measure for Alzheimer disease). Read read read.

5.Exercise.  When you have difficulty in thinking, take a walk or jog.  Go to a gymn.  When you exercise, your body secretes endorphins which stimulate creative thinking.

6.  Brainstorm with a group. Many minds are better than one.

7. Travel.  You can learn so much from your travel.  You can benchmark from other places.  A lot.

8.  Get out of the box.  Learn from outside the experience and your comfort zone.  Learn from other industries

9.  Go to the web. There is so much to benchmark from the web.

l0.  Enrol in a night school.  Join a hobby group.  Join a web group