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Introduction 

We are surrounded by new ideas 360 degrees around us. 

• There are many ideas along the way from home to office. 
• There are many new ideas in our community
• There are many new ideas around our business.
• There are many new ideas around our friends’ premises.
• There are many new ideas around us

What do you observe and discover at home, office, business, community, or any environment around you? We may miss many opportunities that can change our lives if we do not see and discover them.

There is a way we can observe things and discover new ideas. It makes us more. Also, there is a way we can see things and catch nothing. It makes us less. We can observe and discover new ideas if our mindsets are programmed to be receptive to new ideas. Also, we can observe and catch nothing rather than information if our mindsets are not programmed to be receptive to new ideas.

It all depends on how we have programmed our mindset on observation.

What is Radical Observation?

Radical observation is the ability to observe positively beyond the fundamental nature or facts of something. You focus your eyes on appreciating the meaning and understanding and see behind the scene. The focus of radical observation is to observe while fixing your mind to catch new ideas beyond the known facts.

Radical observation is different from observation used in research. Observation is a systematic research technique used to collect evidence for research findings. But radical observation is a strategic observation focusing on discovering new ideas from problems or events in life. It is not necessary to be systematic. 

Sir Isaac Newton, a mathematician, and physicist discovered gravity when he saw a falling apple while thinking about the forces of nature. Sir Newton observed the falling apple beyond the known facts. He challenged himself by asking the following questions;

Why is the apple falling?

What is the force behind it?

With these attitudes, sir Newton realized that some force must be acting on the falling apple.  He researched the new idea and developed the law of gravity.

How to Program Radical Observation

Radical observation depends on radical thinking and observation skills. Therefore, it is necessary to program our minds on radical thinking and improve the way we observe to practice radical observation. Use the following techniques to practice radical observation;

Practice Radical Thinking

Our mindsets determine how we observe things around us. It is easy to practice radical observation if we practice radical thinking. The first step to practicing radical observation is to practice radical thinking. Program the following attitudes in your mind to practice radical thinking;

• Always appreciate what others think.
• Always think of alternative
• Always think more than what is known.

Observe Strategically

Time is a strategic resource for every innovator or inventor. You don’t have to observe everything around you. Observe strategic issues around every event in life. The strategic issue includes problems and challenges around you. Observe and discern solutions to different problems and challenges around you.  

When observing, challenge yourself with the following questions; 

• Is there any alternative?
• What is behind the scene?
• Ask questions to understand more than known facts. 
• Ask yourself why only this or why this way? 
• Ask yourself how it will look if we change or make an improvement.

Write New Ideas & Develop It

Use a notebook, mobile phone, or tablet to write new ideas. Observe and write new ideas.  Chant and connect the dots to explore more. Develop new ideas into products or services.

Source: The Art of Discovery & Innovation 

Introduction

A study conducted by Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada 2020, shows that every person produces 6,200 thoughts per day. The average thinking capacity for a person per day is 6,200 thoughts. It is the high level of production of thinking.

The challenge is that, what kind of thoughts do we produce?

Do we produce thoughts that make us more in life?

Do we produce ordinary or extraordinary thoughts?

It's all depends on how we have programmed our mindset on thinking.

There is a way we can think and produce new ideas. Also, there is a way we can think and come up with nothing rather than daily repeated ideas. It all depends on how we practice thinking. We can think and discover new ideas if our mindsets are programmed to be receptive to new ideas. Also, we can think and discover nothing rather repeated ideas if our mindsets are not programmed to be receptive to new ideas.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary people depends on how they practice thinking.  Also, the difference between innovators and ordinary people depends on how they practice thinking.

Those who practice radical thinking produce new ideas and become extraordinary, rich, and wealthy. But those who practice ordinary thinking remain with the same old ideas and become normal. Innovators do practice radical thinking. But normal people think ordinary.

What is Radical Thinking?

Radical thinking is the ability to think positively beyond the fundamental facts of something. It is to think extraordinary or out of the box. You focus your mind not only on the known facts of something. But you also focus your mind on appreciating and thinking beyond the known facts. 

Thinking beyond the known facts helps us to catch a ball and create new ideas. 

Radical thinking creates new ideas beyond the existing ones. Many inventions and innovations that break the status quo came from radical thinking. 

Thomas Edison, an American inventor, was granted 1,093 patents for inventions. His radical thinking ability positioned him as one the of most famous inventors in the history of the world that ranged including the electric pen, the typewriter, the light bulb, the phonograph, the motion picture, the alkaline storage battery, and the concrete house. He left 3,500 notebooks for his ideas when he died in 1931. 

Radical thinking is an industry of idea production in our minds. It is the art of catching new ideas beyond the known facts. Radical thinking helps us to produce new ideas by keeping our minds open to learning more. Our mind can discover more if it is programmed to think for alternatives or more than known facts. Ask yourself the following questions for every thought that comes to your mind.  

• Why only this? 
• How does it look if we make some changes? 
• What will happen if we add some features? 

How to Program Radical Thinking

Everyone can program radical thinking. It is just your decision. Decide now to practice radical thinking. Use the following steps and techniques to practice radical thinking;

Step 1. Practice Radical Thinking

Everyone can practice radical thinking. Set standards in your mind to scan every thought with the following techniques;

• Always appreciate what others think.
• Always think of alternative
• Always think more than what is known.
• Always ask questions to understand more than known facts. 
• Always ask why only this or why this way? 
• Always ask how it will look if we change.

 Once you program these questions in your mind, it will help you to think radically and discover many new ideas in your life. 

For example

The above image is known as the image of heart or love. Whenever you think about love, this image comes to your mind. This image represents love because it looks like a heart. True love comes from the heart. It is a known fact for this image.

By using our ordinary thinking, this image of love is final and ends. We believe there is no alternative because we limit our minds to thinking beyond the known facts. 

But by using radical thinking, this is not the final and end image of love. Our minds are open to thinking more. With radical thinking, we can think of the following options; 

• What will happen if we change the design? 
• How does it looks if we add some features?
• Is there an alternative to this image?
• Why this image?

By using radical thinking, we appreciate and acknowledge that this is the image of love. But, it is not true that this is the only image of love. We keep our minds open to thinking more beyond the known facts. 

2. Write New Ideas & Develop It

Use a notebook, mobile phone, or tablet to write new ideas. Think and write new ideas.  Chant and connect the dots to explore more. Develop new ideas into products or services.

Source: The Art of Discovery & Innovation 

Who Am I?

This is a fundamental question to ask yourself if you want to be successful in life and business. After asking yourself, you must accept your identity and go for it. Discovering who you are is a vital determinant of your success. If you do not know who you are, you might not make a difference. The six basic questions will guide you to discover your nature, infinite purpose, passion, potential, talent, traits, and abilities. 

1. What is My Life Purpose?

Ask “Who am I” to discover your life purpose. Life's purpose is an infinite purpose for your existence. It is possible to make a difference if you understand your life purpose.

Success means living your life purpose.

Success means making a difference.

Success means touching people’s life.

..........“Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.”

Buckminster Fuller, Author of Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.

Success is the happiness you feel when you touch others' lives or solve problems in society. When you invest in living your life purpose, you make the world a lovely and better place. Touching peoples' lives create more happiness with no stress.

2. What is my Dream?

Ask yourself, “Who am I” to discover what you have to accomplish to make a difference. Dream and vision is life compass. It guides you on what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. Dr. Myles Munroe said the poorest man in the world is the one who does not have a vision. You should have a clear dream and vision to be successful in life.

........."A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.” 

John Maxwell, Leadership Expert, Speaker & Author

The dream is the road map in your life. It helps you understand things you want to accomplish to make the world better.  A dream must make a difference. Otherwise, it is not a dream.

3. What is my Vision?

The vision is the implementation roadmap of your dream. It translates a dream into a plan presenting goals, targets, key performance indicators, activities, and a time frame for implementation.

Therefore, your vision is your dream in a plan. Once you put the dream into a plan, it becomes your vision.

4. What is My Talent?

Talent is the unique ability in you that makes you do better naturally. It is something that you do the best and effortlessly. The architect of talent and success operates like the north and south poles of the magnet. They attract each other because it works like that naturally. You attract success by using your talent because it is the area that you do the best. 

..........“You have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world, and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.”

 Deepak Chopra, MD, Author of Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential Hardcover

5. What is my Passion?

Ask yourself, “Who am I” to discover your passion. Passion is a very powerful feeling, for example of sexual attraction, love, hate, anger, or other emotion. 

Discover what you love to do. 

What do you feel good when doing?

.........“People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”

Maya Angelou, An American Poet, Memoirist, and Civil Rights Activist.

Ask yourself, “What am I passionate about?” Find within you what you love to do? What do you feel good about when you do?

 6. What is my Core Genius?

Core genius is the area or activities in your life that you love to do and you do the best.

Ask yourself, “Who am I” to discover your Core Genius. Discover your Core Genius or activities you love to do, and you do best.

.........“I believe you have inside you a core genius… someone thing that you love to do and do so well, that you hardly feel like doing anything else. It’s effortless for you and a whole lot of fun. And if you could make money doing it, you’d make it your life’s work.”

Jack Canfield, Author of the Success Principles & Co-creator of the Chicken Soup of the Soul. 

Core Genius is a potential area of focus for anyone who wants to be successful. The core genius area carries your passion and unique ability that makes you do the best and effortlessly.

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