Saturday, 28 June 2014

10 Reasons why Creativity takes Courage #5

# 5 Because we tend to think that our ideas have been done better and multiple times before.
There is a popular saying that goes like this “there is nothing new under the sun.” Is there anything new that you want to say or do, that has not been said before or someone else has not done before you. So, dashing as it may seem, yet there is still room for a lot of improvement.

There are still opportunities to discover a lot from the old ways of doing things and reinventing new methods. Moreover, it could just be another form of translation or breaking it down in a simpler term that is required.


Time is a very important factor for growth!
DSTV Nigeria, started by only doing what NTA could not give to the people. They brought the satellite dish and attached lots of channels to it while you can still make use of the same TV that you have in your sitting room. They were not afraid to start because of this other FREE TV stations that are already in existence; instead they took courage and started selling their own better and improved channels with a satellite dish. And so, with time, they only got better and better and their popularity grew with the affordability of their services. Who could have imagined such a thing would happen to TV stations losing their viewership just like that to the extent of being added up as part of the subscribed channels of the DSTV.

You focus will set you apart.
What is it that you have and want to give to the world that someone else or many others have started before you or even doing far better than what you have at present? The secret of successful people whose ideas seem better than what you may have now is just their focus on these three things; their time, their consistent efforts and their perseverance.

There more to the success stories.
Whenever we see the famous or successful individuals or even companies, we never want to believe the story that it took a lot of time before they got there. Funny enough when few of them tell us they've spent years working in becoming who they are now, we don’t really fancy such stories. And we just say don’t mind her or him they just only cook up stories and expect us to believe it. Behind these stories is not just little time spent on what they are doing but an endless time that any other person with this same talents or gifts have not given to it.

The endless amount of time you spent on improving yourself can make you a genius.
In short, to say it again, they really work hard. Take for instance, the Bill Gate story; he worked out his entire ass at the very beginning. He would often sneak out of their home through the window in other to go to a computer lab at a nearby university, to keep working on a big computer throughout the nights. According to his biography, he has more exposure to computer then more than tens of computer professors in various universities round the world as at that time. He would often stay on the computer for hours upon hours throughout the nights, that lead to over ten thousand hours of working on the computer that can make anybody a genius in any field, according a famous research on what it takes to be a genius.

Time is the only guarantee to success
However, this is not to say that there are no other factors that aided him in becoming successful but we cannot as well deny the fact that the number of hours he invested on doing computer programming, debugging and decoding and all of that gave him a big edge. The time you’re spending on working on your ideas is what will make you different from the others. What you need is just to pick up courage and give in all your time and come see what you would have become after ten thousand hours of investment of time and efforts. May be if you invest six hours per day then in the next five years you would have reached the genius state. This is a fact that has been proven in the lives of so many successful people around the world. When you invest your time you will see what comes out of it.

Efforts count for a successful individual
Moreover, putting massive effort on improving an idea that seems not good enough with those already existing can make a lot of improvements. You have to spend lots of time in knowing the strengths and weaknesses of the game players, and vice versa with your own ideas as well. In doing this, you can know what to add or remove from your ideas. Therefore, you can be more determined to come out with your own ideas, nevertheless all these require time and effort put together. At some time you may feel as if all your ideas has been watered down to be like the usual idea people are used to. 

Ask yourself some deep questions
I would only ask you to look inward and ask yourself these following questions; am I really putting enough efforts in developing my ideas? Am I working hard in other to exploit all the unforeseen opportunities embedded in this single idea? Am I still practicing or have reached the ten thousand hours of time? Am I really concentrating my efforts on improving my ideas? I guess by the time you get the answer to any of these questions, you should know what to do next.

The best way to succeed is to persevere to the end
More so you must not give up on your ideas at any time because you are not measuring up to the already standard existing. Truth, you cannot be better than what you are now if you do not persevere on working on your ideas. In everything there is always someone, somewhere, somehow, doing that same thing you intend to do. But it takes courage to begin yours whether the idea is successful or not with the other person(s) or company that are into it already. If the idea is very successful you may have doubted feelings like would I be able to compete with this successful person or company. Likewise if they are not successful you may worry about your own chances of survival. However, the best way to succeed is to persevere to the end, while giving all your time and effort into becoming better and better, by the hour, day by day, months by month as well as year in and year out.

Perseverance is a major trait of successful people
When you persevere, whether your idea is already out or yet to come out; you must continually work on it. You must always do it better than yesterday. This character of perseverance has been one of the major underlying factors that unite your time and efforts that result to success at the end of the day.

The endless amount of time you spent on improving yourself can make you a genius.
In short, to say it again, they really work hard. Take for instance, the Bill Gate story; he worked out his entire ass at the very beginning. He would often sneak out of their home through the window in other to go to a computer lab at a nearby university, to keep working on a big computer throughout the nights. According to his biography, he has more exposure to computer then more than tens of computer professors in various universities round the world as at that time. He would often stay on the computer for hours upon hours throughout the nights, that lead to over ten thousand hours of working on the computer that can make anybody a genius in any field, according a famous research on what it takes to be a genius.

Time is the only guarantee to success
However, this is not to say that there are no other factors that aided him in becoming successful but we cannot as well deny the fact that the number of hours he invested on doing computer programming, debugging and decoding and all of that gave him a big edge. The time you’re spending on working on your ideas is what will make you different from the others. What you need is just to pick up courage and give in all your time and come see what you would have become after ten thousand hours of investment of time and efforts. May be if you invest six hours per day then in the next five years you would have reached the genius state. This is a fact that has been proven in the lives of so many successful people around the world. When you invest your time you will see what comes out of it.

Efforts count for a successful individual
Moreover, putting massive effort on improving an idea that seems not good enough with those already existing can make a lot of improvements. You have to spend lots of time in knowing the strengths and weaknesses of the game players, and vice versa with your own ideas as well. In doing this, you can know what to add or remove from your ideas. Therefore, you can be more determined to come out with your own ideas, nevertheless all these require time and effort put together. At some time you may feel as if all your ideas has been watered down to be like the usual idea people are used to. 

Ask yourself some deep questions
I would only ask you to look inward and ask yourself these following questions; am I really putting enough efforts in developing my ideas? Am I working hard in other to exploit all the unforeseen opportunities embedded in this single idea? Am I still practicing or have reached the ten thousand hours of time? Am I really concentrating my efforts on improving my ideas? I guess by the time you get the answer to any of these questions, you should know what to do next.

The best way to succeed is to persevere to the end
More so you must not give up on your ideas at any time because you are not measuring up to the already standard existing. Truth, you cannot be better than what you are now if you do not persevere on working on your ideas. In everything there is always someone, somewhere, somehow, doing that same thing you intend to do. But it takes courage to begin yours whether the idea is successful or not with the other person(s) or company that are into it already. If the idea is very successful you may have doubted feelings like would I be able to compete with this successful person or company. Likewise if they are not successful you may worry about your own chances of survival. However, the best way to succeed is to persevere to the end, while giving all your time and effort into becoming better and better, by the hour, day by day, months by month as well as year in and year out.

 Perseverance is a major trait of successful people
When you persevere, whether your idea is already out or yet to come out; you must continually work on it. You must always do it better than yesterday. This character of perseverance has been one of the major underlying factors that unite your time and efforts that result to success at the end of the day.


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