The bungled entrepreneur

Gypsy

not. Handle without skill or experimentally.

As an entrepreneur, you probably like to play games. You probably like to ask a lot of questions to the point of getting annoying. You may want to experiment with different machines by taking them apart. Or you may even want to take apart people’s sentences as they speak to you and analyze each word for their true meanings and intentions.

The mind that makes small arrangements is a great mind; it is a sharp mind left hungry with a voracious appetite for understanding, manipulation and the unknown. If you’re not playing, then you should be.

Here is a list of 5 things you can start your tinkering journey with:

  • 1.) When someone tells you something they’ve done and wants you to try it, do it, but make sure you play. For example, if your friend tells you to try a new brownie recipe, why not add some of your own toppings to see if they taste better? It may or may not, but that’s not the point. The point is to try new things and experiment.
  • 2.) If you enjoy reading books, then start combining ideas you’ve learned from various books to create completely new approaches to doing something. Often times, when you combine two concepts, they often have unknown synergistic effects.
  • 3.) Never stop asking questions and try to analyze everything that people tell you. If you don’t understand something, then ask more. If you want to know more about something, keep asking. It’s always good to play with the knowledge you’re learning from people. Because when you do that… sometimes you stumble upon new ways of thinking, new thought patterns. Many teachers hate it when students intrude on their lessons, but the entrepreneurial mind won’t have it.
  • 4.) Take things apart. Seriously, hang out once in a while and take something apart, anything, doesn’t matter. When you take things apart and try to learn how they were built, you are exercising your brain and using your creative energy to understand new concepts. After a while, you’ll be thinking on new levels and applying new knowledge to everything you do.
  • 5.) Look for patterns and put things together. I like to look at random shapes and try to rearrange them in my mind. I imagine them from different angles, with different lengths, widths, I add new dimensions, etc… this is good, because you are empowering your imagination with this type of thinking.

I know… I know… many of you will find these suggestions a huge waste of time, but what do you have to lose? Not much. The bottom line here is to continue to exercise your mind and strive for knowledge and understanding in unfamiliar areas.

Entrepreneurs should never stop wondering how things work, why things are the way they are, and anything else they don’t understand or would like to delve into.

Play with the world!

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