INSPIRING QUOTE FROM AUTHUR C CLARKE

This fine quote has always been one of my greatest inspirations:

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

~ Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008), in 'Profiles of the Future'; he was a British author, inventor and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968) which was made into a classic sci-fi movie; also, a visionary who predicted artificial intelligence and communications satellites that orbit the earth in fixed positions;

WE ARE WHAT WE THINK

According to the US National Science Foundation, it's estimated that our mind produces as many as 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts in a day.

Dr Deepak Chopra, well-known holistic health guru and alternative medicine practitioner, thinks that about 95% of these thoughts are the same thoughts as yesterday's.

We should therefore, do our best, to take up a proactively combinatorial role in our lives to ensure that our daily thoughts are productive in creating positive outcomes in our lives, failing which we will only create miseries for ourselves.

As ancient sages have exhorted, we are what we think, and thoughts are the architects of our destiny.

Here are some simple and quick ideas to move forward with a positive outlook in life:

Take full responsibility for your life; Decide what you want in life and work out a strategy/plan; Be grateful for what you already have; Talk to and/or mix around with positive folk; Be happy, don't worry, and always smile; Have time-out, and do relaxation sequences; Read inspiring books or quotes; Render random kindness to others wherever possible;

INSPIRING QUOTE FROM STEPHEN HAWKING

A truly valid observation!

In fact, this is exactly what is happening in today's Google-era, especially with our younger generation with their notion that "googling" is a synonym to research!

DATA, INFORMATION, IDEAS... WISDOM

Just taking a stand:

Information does not equal to insight, provided that we can generate useful ideas to look at more incoming information, and then explore their usefulness and usability in manifesting a productive outcome.

It's pertinent to point out that data is raw and neutral to everybody. It becomes information only when we can make sense of it [i.e. conceptually coherent and personally relevant] and eventually see a use of it.

It is through our perspective of idea generation that insight is finally drawn from the selected incoming information.

Ideas must come first.That's where our personal creativity - and creative imagination - comes to play.

So, without ideas, information is actually useless.

From the chosen workable idea(s), we can then sculpt our decision to act, and formulate a plan for action, which upon implementation and execution, in turn generates real-world experience - knowing what works; what doesn't work, and what could possibly work better the next time. 

This is what we call knowledge.

As Einstein is believed to have said, 'Knowledge is experience; everything else is just information'.

Interestingly, making a decision implies making a choice, which entails a personal accountability for consequences after the choice is taken, in either way, good or bad.

This is the harsh lesson of having gained knowledge or experience.

Nonetheless, cumulative knowledge or experience over time becomes expertise, and the discerning use of expertise is wisdom.

From data - with the crucial participating elements of information, idea, decision, choice, plan, action, consequence, experience, knowledge, and expertise - to wisdom seems like a linear progression.

In reality, it's not; it's more of an iterative and even recursive process, with feedback as well as feed-forward loops.

In a nut shell, this is how insight becomes ultimately BI (business intelligence), at least from my perspective.

DILIP MUKERJEA IN SINGAPORE

Dilip Mukerjea sharing some of his creative strategies and strategist tools, dovetailed specifically for the real estate market, during a recent return visit to Singapore from Mumbai, India.

A SPLASH MAP FROM DILIP MUKERJEA

A nice infographic - a work-in-progress rendition by my good buddy Dilip Mukerjea in Mumbai, India - about the power and importance of reading!

A SPLASH MAP FROM DILIP MUKERJEA

This is Dilip Mukerjea's masterful graphic rendition - in the form of a Splash Map - of Global Climatic Change.