Would you use a compass if that can help you live and thrive in this fast-changing world?
I have seen a pattern from my observation and experience.
These can give you a foundation to base your decisions on major scenarios
1.Align your goals with the ultimate goal
This is so crucial.
As a species, our ultimate goal is extremely broad.
That’s what we all are striving for in one way or another.
Our goals can take any shape or form, but it has to follow the direction of the ultimate goal.
The ultimate goal – human progress and evolution
Anything, literally anything can be your goal.
All it has to do is to match with the ultimate goal in some way.
If you’re a teacher, you’re more aligned to the goal.
If you’re a lawyer, you can choose to stand for the truth, thus aligning with the ultimate goal.
If you’re a businessman, you can choose the direction
If you’re a politician, you can choose the way
If you’re a preacher, you choose
If you’re a writer, you decide how you can assist in this process
If you’re a musician, painter, artist, scientist, engineer, creator, farmer,……
Some of our professions tend to have a default direction, but we can go wrong even then.
If we keep this in mind, the journey will be worth it in the end, both internally and externally.
2. Trust the interaction
I know what you’re thinking.
Many of us have fallen into traps by following this.
Remember, if you do this, the positives far outweigh the negatives.
We all know people who have cheated their ways to success – maybe they have made more money, maybe they won and reached places, and so on.
This is true and I have gone through this too.
This was possible and the cheaters in the system benefited greatly until very recently.
This is changing as we’re getting connected more and more every passing day.
Our personal brand – a short measure of our ethics, values, and interactions – is reaching people just at a click or a call.
French President Emmanuel Macron is my 3rd-degree connection on LinkedIn. British President Boris Johnson as well.
References and our past interactions are becoming more relevant. Relatively easy access to sift through them is acting as the gasoline to this fire.
We’re all connected on social.
News spread like wildfire. Ideas travel places.
We access collective intelligence more than ever.
We access similar sources.
We have a similar metric to value and measure things and people.
This was not the case until very recently. So trust didn’t have much prominence on a larger scale.
If I did something good, chances are that at least a few people will know about it.
No, I’m not talking about broadcasting this on social.
I’m talking about the person/community that benefited from my acts.
People tend to work with me. More opportunities come my way. More business options take shape for me.
On the contrary, if I have cheated someone, maybe in business or in life in general – this word spreads too. Maybe a bit faster than the good ones.
People tend to limit their interactions with me. Opportunities redirect from my way to others with goodwill and more trust points.
Business options take a dim route as business interactions and partnerships are built on trust.
This is not just for people, applicable to communities as well. And the people within that communities too.
If a community is creating chaos, the opportunities get closed for people in those communities. The options will become smaller and narrower with each passing day.
The bad news and ill trust spread far and wide.
We might hear about building a personal brand and similar stuff. All those come as a subset of this point.
3. Open-mindedness is rewarded
The world is your oyster. And it rewards people with open-mindedness.
How?
Things are changing, and changing fast.
You might have heard about Moore’s law.
Moore’s law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit double about every two years. Moore’s law is an observation and projection of a historical trend.
This is in regards to the computing power.
This is relevant in numerous fields and industries.
If we take this law into consideration, the number of opportunities opening up is humongous.
New fields are opening up possibilities that we have never heard of before. New technologies are creating fields altogether.
If we’re close-minded, we don’t really take chances.
And open-minded folks just keep taking chances. And a few of them click.
You might ask me?
How can I afford to take such chances?
I get it.
Let me ask you a few questions.
How do you go about taking any major decision in your life?
We weigh the upside and the downside – pros and cons of that decision.
If the pros weigh more, we generally go with that decision.
This is a simple process but all of us follow it.
It can be a decision to take up a profession or it can be a billion-dollar deal.
Now, let me reveal a piece of good news for you.
The new opportunities that I talked about earlier – most of them have a very little downside and a huge upside.
Now, would you be taking chances in such scenarios?
If you would, you gain a lot.
But, why is that?
Why does the upside far outweigh the downside?
The major reason is the tech intervention in most fields.
Advanced technologies have made it a lot cheaper to break into any industry and field.
You just have to have the guts and a little money.
For instance, you can now access the genome sequences from the National health of science to formulate your own ideas. It is a two-sided game.
Anyone can access the tech and research for cheap.
So there’s a high chance that someone will bring something amazing to the table which will get distributed to the pool which again brings back greater insights. And it goes on.
Now you can see the communication is faster, the access is cheap, the insights are greater, hence the human progress is faster. We all act and work as collective intelligence.
We all strive to contribute to this collective intelligence.
This system rewards people who bring greater insights to the table and it does it heavily.
Why?
Those people are pushing collective intelligence forward. The greater impact, the greater the reward.
Open-minded people take more chances and get rewarded exponentially.
If you keep these pointers in your mind and align your decisions using this compass, you are at great odds to live a fulfilling life.
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