‘Idea’ a widely used word in our day-to-day life, but do we really understand it’s meaning? The other day, I asked a young boy, ‘What is an Idea?’ and the response benumbed me for a moment, he said ‘It’s a mobile SIM card, don’t you know it?’ Yes, Idea Cellular succeeded on their part, but the question remains the same, what is an Idea? The dictionary meaning for Idea is ‘a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action, or a mental impression, or an opinion, or belief’. What comes to my mind when I think about IDEA is:
Many things around us change every while and this happens only due to an Idea. There are many examples to think of around like Facebook, i-pad, Elevators or Escalators, and many more to this list. In fact, it won’t be wrong if I say it this way that all the things surrounding us started with an Idea, and the corporate world today is also focused on Innovation these days (just for the record). So, Ideas are powerful. We know that Ideas are powerful from the above few examples, and the world around us; but, do we really understand what Idea is? Or, what do we actually mean when we say we have an Idea? So let’s take some time to understand what an Idea is from my prospect.
The ‘I’ from an Idea stands for Imagination/Innovation for me and it is the most important element of it. Whenever we say that we have an idea we actually mean that we know how things can be done as we have imagined or we have an innovative way of doing things.
‘The True Sign of Intelligence is not Knowledge but Imagination’ – Albert EinsteinMost of us know that the human brain process around 30,000 thoughts per day on an average day (this number is taken on a safer side though, there are many!!!), so it means that everyone is too busy to be able to imagine and innovate, is it? For me, it’s not true because I have heard many people talking, ‘What if this is done this way?’ and there comes an Idea so we all have many Ideas but do we see all of them making huge loads of money or are they famous or anything like that of Facebook or WhatsApp? The answer is NO!!!
Here comes the second word ‘D’ from 'Idea'. For me, it stands for Dare. We all have imagined many ways to do things, but, did we really dare to put it up to our friends, family, teachers, or even ourselves? The answer is obviously NO!!! And we all know that!!! ‘What if I share this idea with my friends and they call me crazy!’ would be the first thought coming to your mind, but, I would like to question the thought ‘Would we be using Facebook if Mark Zuckerberg thought the same way?’ The answer is obvious that if we can’t dare, the Ideas will be Ideas and not the reality.
The next word is ‘E’ from Idea and it stands for Experimenting/Experiencing for me. The Ideas we come up with are not always right for the situation but are we ready to experiment and experience? Many times we all try or what we say ‘We experiment!’ with our food like Onion Chips with Shrikhand, Salt with Tea, and many more. Few times we succeed and few times we don’t, but, at least we experiment with our food; but, are we really that experimental with every Idea we come up with?
‘A Fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life’ – Erasmus Darwin
The next and the last word in Idea is ‘A’ and it stands for Adventure for me. During this process of imagination, innovation, experimenting, and daring to do it we are on an Adventurous tour, and so for me ‘Ideas are Adventure’. But are we that adventurous in our lives? We all look for adventure away from our day to day life like going on trekking, gaming, and many more but the truth is our life itself is too adventurous in itself; it’s just the moment until you discover it.We all have Ideas and Ideas are free just dare to experiment, dare to experience, and dare to make life full of adventures.
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