Initially, the tech company was the lean, innovative underdog that took on the powerful status quo to free the consumer from how they viewed ideas, institutions and service delivery. But tech can no longer claim that. The so-called tech disruptors of today have unchallenged access, funding, and regulatory support. Disruption is sold as a one-way street where technology can change a social space if it is static but can't be changed in return. Yet, today's disruption is happening through users and networks, not tech companies.

Technological disruption

Grab and Gojek were mobility platforms meant to disrupt the city's existing motorbike taxi market by creating a driver workforce that was anonymised. Instead, the Grab and Gojek drivers used WhatsApp to create thousands of DIY community spaces. Loose driver groups changed into independent, cross-company communities that were organised by drivers for drivers. Yet, this type of disruption is not considered as such. Tech companies label Uber as an innovative disruption while motorbike taxis that provide a similar service are deemed dangerous or chaotic.

Example of disruption

The promise of disruption is much restrained by terms set by tech companies themselves. Companies increasingly try to prevent the ability to use and build upon existing technologies in ways that the original company does not approve of. However, tech is never the first or last mover of change. It is just one of the forces within a complex social world. To design better technology means to take it out of the centre. Technology that responds to people's needs sees users as more than just passive recipients will be best able to harness its power.

The promise of disruption

There's a wave of innovation led by users and networks, not tech companies.

There's a wave of innovation that we're failing to recognize—and it's being led by users and networks, not tech companies.

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Technology & The Future

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Creativity

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‘Disruption’ Is a Two-Way Street

Marie Curie profoundly impacted the world. Born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, she was a child prodigy in literature and mathematics. She worked as a governess until age 24 to save money for school and became the first woman in France to earn her PhD. She studied uranium, which was not well understood at the time. She discovered two new elements, radium and polonium, created cancer treatments and advanced x-ray technology, won a Nobel Prize in 1903, and won a second Nobel Prize in 1911.

Learning from Marie Curie

As an extraordinary scientist, Marie Curie relied on three key strategies to understand the world, make decisions, collaborate with others, and explore new ideas. <ul><li>She embraced the unknown. Curie challenged widely-held beliefs and later proved her position.</li><li>Making radical bets on herself. When Pierre Curie, her husband and lab partner, unexpectedly died, she did not step down from the lab as colleagues expected but stayed at the university, Sorbonne, and took over the lab herself.</li><li>Sharing her ideas. Marie Curie would work with anyone interested in radiation, including people in healthcare.</li></ul>

Marie Curie’s thinking strategies

<ul><li>Learn how to bet on yourself. Marie Curie made decisions about her career because she valued science. What small risk can you take right now to improve your work or life?</li><li>She made choices based on her values. Are your work and personal decisions aligned with your values?</li><li>Share ideas. Use them to connect with others inside and outside your field. It will give you the opportunity to receive feedback.</li></ul>

How to think like Marie Curie

Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903. Then, in 1911, she became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, and still holds the record as the only woman who has earned two Nobel Prizes in two different fields.

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Science & Nature

Marie Curie: the power of sharing radical ideas with the world

The Alchemist is the book about Why and How to follow your Dreams

Lessons Learned From The Alchemist Book

Dreams are the Language of God communicating with us what you want to do in this Earth.

Dream Is A Language

Your dreams may be irrelevant to your surroundings or your carrer path may be you think it's impossible, but that's the thing you have to do in this EarthIf you got any irrelevant or you think it is impossible, just to do that once, you got an Idea

Impossible Or Irrelevant Dreams

When you started to chase your dreams, you may be struk in the mid or beginning. Just be relaxed and calm. You'll find God's Sign, with that you can go forward easily.

God Signs

We always get problems in our journey of life, same as that we get problems in our path, but that's all about God's plan. The problems came for you to Level Up you for attaining your Dreams

Don't Be Afraid Of The Problems In Your Dream Path

In our Life we have a Big Treasure to attain. But in the journey for finding the treasure, the path gets full of small jewells. If we get ok with that small jewells you can't attain your Treasure

Final Moral

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

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A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho.Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

Paulo Coelho de Souza is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His novel The Alchemist became an international best-seller and he has published 30 more books since then.

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The Alchemist

Understanding this is critical because one of the most useful skills you can have is creative thinking. Innovative solutions, lateral thinking, and creative ideas can help with almost any problem you face at work or in life.

Why you should read this 

Most importantly, your ability to generate new combinations is dependent on your ability to see the connections between concepts. You have done something creative if you can create a new link between two old ideas.

The 5 Stages of the Creative Process

You learn at first. During this stage, you should concentrate on 1) learning specific material directly related to your task and 2) learning general material by becoming fascinated with a wide range of concepts.

1. Gather new material.

During this stage, you examine what you've learned by looking at the facts from different perspectives and experimenting with putting different ideas together.

2. Thoroughly work over the materials in your mind.

Then you completely forget about the problem and go do something else that excites and energises you.

3. Step away from the problem.

Your idea will return to you with a flash of insight and renewed energy at some point, but only after you have stopped thinking about it.

4. Let your idea return to you.

For any idea to succeed, it must be put out into the world, subjected to criticism, and adapted as necessary.

Shape and develop your idea based on feedback.

“An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.”

The act of making new connections between old ideas is referred to as the creative process. As a result, we can define creative thinking as the task of identifying relationships between concepts.

The act of making new connections between old ideas is referred to as the creative process. As a result, we can define creative thinking as the task of identifying relationships between concepts.

This article explains the creative process all brilliant ideas have in common. Anyone can learn to be creative by using these five steps.

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Problem Solving

For a More Creative Brain, Follow These 5 Steps

<ul><li>Thinking about the future is pleasurable and sometimes we’d rather just think about it than get there. Some events are more pleasurable to imagine than to experience.</li><li>We like to daydream because the mere dream itself can be a joy.</li><li>The main reason why our brains simulate the future is so that we can control the experiences that we have. </li><li>Our brain makes predictions incredibly quickly and about nearly everything in life. When our experiences don't match what our brain expects, we feel surprised.</li></ul>

How We Think About The Future

The greatest ability of the human brain is to imagine, to see the world as it has never been before.But imagination has three shortcomings:<ul><li>Imagination tends to add and remove details, but people do not realize that key details may be fabricated or missing from the imagined scenario. </li><li>Imagined futures (and pasts) are more like the present than they actually will be (or were).</li><li>Imagination fails to realize that things will feel different once they actually happen—most notably, the psychological immune system will make bad things feel not so bad as they are imagined to feel.</li></ul>

Our Ability To Imagine

The word happiness is used to refer to three related things:<ul><li>Emotional happiness</li><li>Moral happiness</li><li>Judgemental happiness</li></ul>It’s hard to define emotional happiness, but when we feel it, we have no doubt about its reality and importance. Because we have a poor recollection of our experiences, we cannot objectively compare a previous state of happiness to a present state.

About Happiness

All claims of happiness are subjective. And are formed from the perspective of a single human being whose unique collection of past experiences serves as context.Nobody really knows what happiness feels like for others, so that means we can’t say definitely whether someone in a situation that might seem bad to us is actually less happy than we are. In fact, it’s entirely possible they are just as happy or even more so.Not knowing what we are missing is the very thing that allows us to be happy despite not having some other opportunity.

Happiness Is Subjective

Your experiential background can dramatically change your happiness levels. Once you know something exists and have experienced pleasure from it, then your definition of happiness changes compared to what it was in the past.

The Experience-Stretching Hypothesis

Negative events affect us but not as long as we expect them. When our psychological immune system is working, we are able to cope with any negative situation that comes our way. Explaining events robs them of their emotional impact because it makes the event seem more likely. This allows us to stop thinking about them.

Rationalization

Wealth increases people’s happiness after it removes them from poverty and places them in the middle class. After that, there is little relation between wealth and happiness.

Wealth And Happiness

Experience and awareness are closely related but not the same. <ul><li>Experience refers to partaking in an event. </li><li>Awareness refers to being cognizant that the event is happening.</li></ul>

Experience And Awareness 

It happens when a phenomenon arises from very large numbers of something, but not smaller versions of it. For example, billions of neurons lead to a conscious human brain, but two neurons are not a small version of consciousness.

The Law of Large Numbers

Psychological sciences will always be imperfect because we are trying to observe someone else's subjective experience, but it's the best we've got and the closest an outside observer can get to understanding the inside of someone else's mind.

The Shortcomings of Psychology

It refers to judging historical events or people by modern-day standards. It is largely useless and unfair because you can't expect historical figures to make the same decisions as we do now because they lived in a very different context.

Presentism 

Mastering the greatest pursuit there ever was: Happiness

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How to Be Happy

A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we’re so lousy at predicting what will make us happy – and what we can do about it. Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had expected. Why? As Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains, when people try to imagine what the future will hold, they make some basic and consistent mistakes. Just as memory plays tricks on us when we try to look backward in time, so does imagination play tricks when we try to look forward. Using cutting-edge research, much of it original, Gilbert shakes, cajoles, persuades, tricks and jokes us into accepting the fact that happiness is not really what or where we thought it was. Among the unexpected questions he poses: Why are conjoined twins no less happy than the general population? When you go out to eat, is it better to order your favourite dish every time, or to try something new? If Ingrid Bergman hadn’t gotten on the plane at the end of Casablanca, would she and Bogey have been better off? Smart, witty, accessible and laugh-out-loud funny, Stumbling on Happiness brilliantly describes all that science has to tell us about the uniquely human ability to envision the future, and how likely we are to enjoy it when we get there.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we’re so lousy at predicting what will make us happy – and what we can do about it. Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had expected. Why? As Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains, when people try to imagine what the future will hold, they make some basic and consistent mistakes. Just as memory plays tricks on us when we try to look backward in time, so does imagination play tricks when we try to look forward. Using cutting-edge research, much of it original, Gilbert shakes, cajoles, persuades, tricks and jokes us into accepting the fact that happiness is not really what or where we thought it was. Among the unexpected questions he poses: Why are conjoined twins no less happy than the general population? When you go out to eat, is it better to order your favourite dish every time, or to try something new? If Ingrid Bergman hadn’t gotten on the plane at the end of Casablanca, would she and Bogey have been better off? Smart, witty, accessible and laugh-out-loud funny, Stumbling on Happiness brilliantly describes all that science has to tell us about the uniquely human ability to envision the future, and how likely we are to enjoy it when we get there.

Daniel Gilbert is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Daniel Gilbert has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Daniel Gilbert's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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Stumbling on Happiness

I have been doing ART for the past 9 years, and if there is something that I have realised is that once you get engrossed in it, art becomes your addiction. Every time you need to clear your mind, get back normal, or you're just bored, art is your go-man!

It's An Addiction!

Art gives you the immense happiness that nothing else can provide. The creativity starts flowing in all directions and you fell the magical vibe around you. It relaxes the whole body and gives a comforting and soothing feeling.

Comforting

For me the most important element required while doing art is MUSIC… music of my taste.Music gives me a diversion from my daily life. It gives me the flow to draw. The combination of music and art is something that most artists like.

Music X Art

Another thing I learned is that all of us have an artist within us, we just have to look for it. Many people think low of them in this field and fear even trying.

Art Is In Everyone 

“Art is of acquired taste, not everyone understands it”I understood this only after studying abstract art. Abstract art shows us the power of the human brain and what it withstands. It showed me how a single piece of art can be seen from different viewpoints.

Abstract Art

Art transforms you into a whole new person…. creative, contented, constructive and concentrated. It makes this world look way more interesting and beautiful than you would have ever imagined. ‘‘I would rather die of passion than of boredom.’’                                                 – VINCENT VAN GOGH

A Beautiful World 

I, as an artist myself can reflect upon these thoughts and connect it to my life. 

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How Art Can Change A Person's Perspective

When you are tired from doing work, don't pick up your phone to scroll mindlessly. Instead take Real Rest like walking, or a few pushups, or just looking out of the window. This will replenish your energy and will feel refreshing instead of tiring the brain even more.

Take Real Rest

Practice isn't something you do when you are good at something, it's something you do to become good.

Happiness has been proven to increase productivity and efficiency in doing any kind of work, as it gives a sense of purpose and exitement. So try to stay happy to improve productivity.

Happiness

Consider consuming caffiene early in the day to focus better on your work

Caffiene

Our brains remember unfinished tasks better than finished ones, so that we continue to think about our unsolved problems. This can be used to our benefit in many ways. For example, take a break for some time from a difficult probelm. Surprisingly you may have the answer to it while you resume it some time later.

Zeigarnic Effect

"Common Sense isn't common action. "Many times we know the answer to a solution from common sense but we don't do what is needed to be done. Like for example we know that a headache can be cured by putting our phone aside and taking a break, but we continue to use our phones anyway. So do things which seem common sense, instead of undermining them due to their simplicity.

Common Sense

Most humans have trouble focusing on one task. While we attribute this to our laziness, it actually has an evolutionary reason. Early humans always had to stay aware of their surroundings for potential danger (like a tiger lurking around). So our brains have evolved to always have their attention scattered to be aware of their surroundings, hence making it hard for us to focus on one single task. So don't go too hard on yourself and try to improve your focus progreseively.

Why Is It So Hard To Focus? 

Your focus is the most valuable asset you have. You can literally change your life by choosing where to devote your focus.So spend it wisely.

Last Words

Dense important ideas of the book Hyperfocus. 

Our attention has never been as overwhelmed or in demand as it is today; we've never been so busy while accomplishing so little, and we've grown uncomfortable with boredom and a lack of stimulation and distraction.In Hyperfocus, Chris Bailey - described by TED.com as 'the most productive man you could ever hope to meet' - provides profound insights into how we can best manage our attention. He reveals how the brain switches between two mental modes - hyperfocus, our deep concentration mode, and scatterfocus, our creative, reflective mode - and how the surest path to being our most creative and efficient selves at work is to combine them both.The often counter-intuitive wisdom at play includes:- How working fewer hours increases our productivity- How drinking caffeine strategically instead of habitually gives us more energy- How we get more done by making our work harder, not easier- How we do our best creative work when we're the most tired

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Adviezen om met veel aandacht en concentratie ingewikkelde werkopdrachten uit te voeren.

Chris Bailey is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Chris Bailey has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Chris Bailey's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

Chris Bailey

Hyperfocus

To be a flower,” Emily Dickinson wrote in her pre-ecological poem about ecology, “is profound Responsibility.”A century later, in one of the most poetic and existentially ravishing children’s* books of all time, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry made his hero’s central preoccupation the responsibility for a single flower — the Little Prince’s beloved rose: fragile and self-concerned, ferociously hungry for love, capable of such tenderness and such cruelty, so ephemeral and so stubborn, so much a miniature of the contradictory animating forces that make us human.

Being A Flower

For as long as humans have been alive and awake to our bittersweet cosmic inheritance as transient constellations of atoms capable of transcendent beauty, we have found in flowers <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/02/07/the-moral-of-flowers-rebecca-hey/">models of moral wisdom</a>, <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/06/16/sarah-mapps-douglass-flowers/">emblems of freedom</a>, <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/07/02/perfect-flowers-emily-dickison/">nonbinary pioneers</a>, <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/17/sidewalk-flowers/">portals to paying attention</a>. Over the epochs of time and thought, flowers have <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/06/wintering-katherine-may/">rivaled trees</a> as mirrors for the meaning of our human lives.

Flowers Show Us The Fragility And Beauty Of Life

Our experience of flowers is so deeply drenched in our sense of time. Maybe there’s a good reason we find their fleetingness so piercing, can scarcely look at a flower in bloom without thinking ahead, whether in hope or regret. We might share with certain insects a tropism inclining us toward flowers, but presumably, insects can look at a blossom without entertaining thoughts of the past and future — complicated human thoughts that may once have been anything but idle. Flowers have always had important things to teach us about time.

Flowers Are Fleeting Beauty

Time, of course, is itself a creature of paradoxes — at once the relentless forward momentum of our mortality and the greatest antidote to the anxiety of aliveness. When you realize you are mortal you also realize the tremendousness of the future. You fall in love with a Time you will never perceive.It may be that flowers betoken precisely this elemental duality and through it cast their enchantment upon us. After contouring their astonishing evolutionary history — so astonishing that the baffled Darwin called it “an abominable mystery”

The Sense Of Time

Look into a flower, and what do you see? Into the very heart of nature’s double nature — that is, the contending energies of creation and dissolution, the spiring toward complex form and the tidal pull away from it. There, the achievement of order against all odds and its blithe abandonment. There, the perfection of art and the blind flux of nature. There, somehow, both transcendence and necessity. Could that be it — right there, in a flower — the meaning of life?

Flowers Are The Shades Of Life

Meaning, of course, is just what we make of life — what we make of our mortality <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/02/21/brian-greene-until-the-end-of-time/">as an inevitability of the universe that made us</a>. “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important,” the fox says to the Little Price. “All the stars are a-bloom with flowers,” the Little Prince says to the pilot before he returns to that fathomless region of spacetime from which he had visited.

The Meaning Of Life

The Flower and the Meaning of Life

Lori Grenier is an inventor and multi-millionaire investor. She is known for her wildly popular ABC show, Shark Tank. She has over 500 inventions and 120 patents.  But she wasn't born a successful inventor. It all started nearly twenty years ago with the idea of an interesting jewellery box.

Lori Grenier was not born successful

There are two types of inventors:<ul><li>The one who creates one masterwork.</li><li>The serial inventor who thrive in coping up with one new idea after another and bringing them to life.</li></ul>

Know the inventor you want to be

Don't fall in love with your idea so much that you don't want to listen to feedback.  Business is business. Sometimes you will have to change your idea to match demand.

Don't be stubborn with your idea

You may have many ideas that don't work. That's okay. You just need one idea to take off.  However, to know which one is your million dollar idea, you need to come up with multiple ideas and test and experiment with what does and doesn't work. The idea you think is the best might not be what customers want. You need to be comfortable with failing and moving on.

It takes one idea

Beginner inventors and entrepreneurs should learn all the facets of their craft and business firsthand to enable them to make pivotal decisions. When Grenier had to create over 20,000 pieces of jewellery by hand for her in-store display, she put in the hours. There's no other way.

Put in the hours

Entrepreneurs will work 80 hours a week. Being your own boss is much harder work than working for someone else. If you have an idea, you'll be willing to work 80 hours because it is easier than working 40 hours for someone else's.

Do whatever it takes

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Expert-Knowledge paradoxically seems to be a barrier of unbiased thinking for many experts (Expert-Bias-Barrier).The open and clear horizon of an area of expertise narrows for the expert behind a city made of expert knowledge.

The biased Horizon

Laypeople & amateurs are less restricted by the intrinsic rules and thinking paradigms of an area of expertise, because it is more likely they are not aware of them.This condition, as it does not narrow their view, allows them to openly create more unbiased ideas to an expert topic.

The unbiased Horizon

Innovative problemsolving needs all stages of competence hand in hand.While amateurs can be a creative source of open impulses and ideas, experts can structure and evaluate those specifically towards the problem that needs to be solved.So merging horizons comes down to complement each others strengths and weaknesses with an inclusive and participative approach of solution creation (synergy).

Merging Horizons

Society tends to unerestimate ideas created by non-experts. This limiting conviction restricts the full potential of a society's innovational fundament.

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