Well hello there! It seems like its been a while since I met you here. No recap of the previous year as was the usual norm for a few years now. Neither was there a very resolute post in early Jan like was the norm a few years earlier. I actually thought the last I wrote was in Nov. I was let down. Mightily.
So, a very happy new year to all fellow bloggers and followers. Hope more of your resolutions are made and executed this year. I just noticed early this year that almost all my resolutions have been stuck on paper for the past couple of years now. Don't have the heart or the will to strike them off (read that as cancel) and for a multitude of reasons, they have not been executed. I hope to realise a few of them this year and strike them off (read that as executed) so that the next years resolutions look at least a little fresh. I'm very happy that this year has started on the right NOTE.
Anyways, I was thinking about a topic that was boggling me for the past few weeks now. Reinvention. How important it is for one to reinvent and adapt as per the current scenario. Or wait, maybe not. Adaptability is something that's probably vastly different from reinvention. Yeah. it actually is. Although both of them form the core essentials of an individual's nature. You might be able to adapt, but when it comes to reinventing, maybe you would shy away citing a lot of reasons.
I really don't want to take any names out, as always. But sometimes this reinvention that people term they are doing to themselves is mostly an abomination. The people or the organisations i'm talking about were at a point of time at their best. Displaying unparalleled workmanship, displaying creative ability, taking out ideas out of thin air, having everyone stumped. No, i'm not saying success got to their heads and they just got too cocky to experiment any more. I don't think its that. True, a lot of us might say that now there is access to everyone to everything. The world is a smaller place. You really can't think so much out of the box like earlier. Dude, if you can't think, then its dangerous. Not just for us, but for the future generations to come. Because this is what we'd pass on - intellectually and genetically.
Reinvention has happened in a few ways. People have gone out of their comfort zone to do things they have never done. I strongly feel that time and again, this needs to be done. Even your brain gets bored after a regular workout routine, so much so that unless you surprise it with something new, it signals the body to stop responding. So, basically to keep the brain active, you need to surprise it with a lot of new things and this is when you'd find out what's more to you than what was hitherto. But completely shifting focus to a new area and just resting on a previously created name will not do much good. If you are an expert at doing something, find out ways to better that. Find your forte. Find your native spirit. When it is set, you can play all around it. Some people fail to find that. But what's startling is that in today's times, after finding your trait, your home ground, you leave it all out and then go in pursuit of something else? I seriously think there is something amiss there. Its probably a phase, I like to believe where people have gotten more experimental, but I have strongly experienced that getting back to the roots is always the solution.
Yeah, you need to have roots of course. Without that, everything is just vapour.
So, a very happy new year to all fellow bloggers and followers. Hope more of your resolutions are made and executed this year. I just noticed early this year that almost all my resolutions have been stuck on paper for the past couple of years now. Don't have the heart or the will to strike them off (read that as cancel) and for a multitude of reasons, they have not been executed. I hope to realise a few of them this year and strike them off (read that as executed) so that the next years resolutions look at least a little fresh. I'm very happy that this year has started on the right NOTE.
Anyways, I was thinking about a topic that was boggling me for the past few weeks now. Reinvention. How important it is for one to reinvent and adapt as per the current scenario. Or wait, maybe not. Adaptability is something that's probably vastly different from reinvention. Yeah. it actually is. Although both of them form the core essentials of an individual's nature. You might be able to adapt, but when it comes to reinventing, maybe you would shy away citing a lot of reasons.
I really don't want to take any names out, as always. But sometimes this reinvention that people term they are doing to themselves is mostly an abomination. The people or the organisations i'm talking about were at a point of time at their best. Displaying unparalleled workmanship, displaying creative ability, taking out ideas out of thin air, having everyone stumped. No, i'm not saying success got to their heads and they just got too cocky to experiment any more. I don't think its that. True, a lot of us might say that now there is access to everyone to everything. The world is a smaller place. You really can't think so much out of the box like earlier. Dude, if you can't think, then its dangerous. Not just for us, but for the future generations to come. Because this is what we'd pass on - intellectually and genetically.
Reinvention has happened in a few ways. People have gone out of their comfort zone to do things they have never done. I strongly feel that time and again, this needs to be done. Even your brain gets bored after a regular workout routine, so much so that unless you surprise it with something new, it signals the body to stop responding. So, basically to keep the brain active, you need to surprise it with a lot of new things and this is when you'd find out what's more to you than what was hitherto. But completely shifting focus to a new area and just resting on a previously created name will not do much good. If you are an expert at doing something, find out ways to better that. Find your forte. Find your native spirit. When it is set, you can play all around it. Some people fail to find that. But what's startling is that in today's times, after finding your trait, your home ground, you leave it all out and then go in pursuit of something else? I seriously think there is something amiss there. Its probably a phase, I like to believe where people have gotten more experimental, but I have strongly experienced that getting back to the roots is always the solution.
Yeah, you need to have roots of course. Without that, everything is just vapour.
