Ah,
You want to be innovative.
You wanna be the next Samsung.
That's adorable.
You can't even innovate your way out of your own daily routine.
Yet here you are,
Plotting a global revolution.
Let's be honest.
You're not innovative.
You're just well behaved.
You've been trained since primary school to fit in,
Stay in your lane and don't make a scene.
Congratulations,
You're an expert on being forgettable.
In the Zen tradition.
They talk about.
Emptiness.
Not the kind where you feel lonely because you haven't checked your notifications.
But the saniyata.
The radical openness.
Where your identity as a sensible person dissolves.
Your sensible life.
Is just a story you're telling yourself.
So you don't have to face being an absolute nobody.
With a truly wild idea.
You think the internet connected fridge was a stroke of genius?
It was a joke.
It was ridiculous.
It was a screen on a box.
But they did it anyway,
Because they stopped caring if it sounded stupid.
You,
On the other hand,
Spend three hours worrying if your latest big move looks okay on your resume.
If you are not willing to look like a complete muppet.
You're never gonna be outrageous.
Innovation isn't a spark of genius.
It's the willingness to be the person who says the thing that makes everyone else in the room go quiet.
And look at their shoes.
Are you prepared to be that person?
Or are you just looking for an innovative way to keep being like?
You're afraid of failing.
Failure is just a concept that belongs to the ego.
If you fail,
You're still alive.
The sun still comes up.
The universe doesn't care.
You're giving failure a power it doesn't possess.
Sit with the idea of your big project.
Crashing and burning in front of everyone you know.
Does the world end?
You just get to start over again without the burden of being the person.
Who always has it together.
That is the ultimate freedom.
You don't need a roadmap to success.
You just need to stop asking for permission to be weird.
If your ideas aren't making you nervous,
You're just rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking ship.
Stop trying to think bigger.
Start acting like you don't give a toss about the outcome.
If you act without the ego's need for validation.
You'll find.
That outrageous is just another word.
For real.
I'm done.
Stop brainstorming.
Go and do something that scares you.
That makes you look like a knob even better.
The moment you stop trying to make sense to everyone else.
Is the moment you might actually do something worth remembering.
Now,
Get moving.
Before you have time to think it over and talk yourself back into being boring.
