Mystery 101

The world is really full of mysteries, do you not agree?

Ahem…

Just last August 09, 2014, I just found out that the 10 minutes is the new three hours, isn’t that quite amazing!? Oh come on be amazed! It is a mystery we need to solve... not! Well I may not be that serious but I was not kidding. What do you take me for, a liar? Seriously our facilitator said he is just going to discuss his new inputs for just like 10 minutes but it really took him three hours, three hours I say! Phew! Well it is not really something new because his discussions really last that long but I was just kind of not in the mood for a lecture since it was a make-up class (not the kind of make-up where you transform to a different person lol) and what is worst is that it was freaking Saturday! My lovely weekend just got cracked ToT. Anyhow, I am not really that upset in coming or attending to this make-up class because as I was listening to our facilitator I also kind of daydreamed leading me to a new and creative idea.

Our class started early at 8:00 am so, as I mentioned, I was not really on the mood to listen because I was still kind of sleepy (you can’t blame me because it was Saturday and I’m supposed and I deserve to have a really long sleep during my weekend, right, right?) but still, I did somehow listen… bit by bit teehee. Well to sum up what our facilitator had discussed, as far as I can remember, it was about how we can make, create, or think better or should I say best ideas that are novel, which would really change how the world orbits! (not really).” How?” you say? Typically we need to go back a few pages and come back to what we would like to call the SEED curriculum. It kind of has to do with Self - mastery but oh well before we proceed let us first have a brief review or discussion on what the SEED curriculum is all about to get an idea on how will this help aspiring technopreneurs to innovate. So now let’s talk about the SEED model. S – stands for “Self-Mastery”. First E – stands for “Environment Mastery”. The second E – stands for “Enterprise Master”. And last but not the least, D – which stands for “Development”. Self-Mastery is a passion that comes from knowing yourself. Discover your weaknesses and strengthen your most valuable skills and capabilities. Knowing yourself better before anything else is very important. This is like mastering your skills and talents and taking it to the next level and the same time strengthening your weaknesses to decrease you vulnerability when a problem comes. Knowing yourself much better can help you, as an individual, determine your skills and how far your creativity takes you in innovating something new, something original with a purpose. As I said before, I did have regrets choosing this line of course. I could have been an artist, a detective, a technician because I know I have the passion for arts, and even though being a detective is not a game I think it’s fun, and most of all I have the knack of tinkering through broken things and fix it. And now I’m thinking why not ring those passion and talents to the IT industry? It’s all about how you handle yourself in different situations with the best of your abilities. This is a very big help for me and for us to discover what will be our possible future in this area of Information Technology. In order to be a good technopreneur, you should master and know yourself better. The first letter E in SEED means Environmental Mastery. It usually involves generating business ideas, plans, and seeking for opportunities out from our environment through different style like serendipity walks, crisis, trends and anything under the sun. Just like what we did in our previous activity, we visited business establishments, observe these places, look for flaws or rather any inconveniences, and think of something we can innovate to simply business operation and make the customer’s life easy and comfy. These wild and creative ideas are just examples of what could do to contribute in today’s technological era if we ever manage to pursue it and if, of course, our idea is actually pretty decent, original and full of purpose. Every one of us has experienced crisis and hardships. From that, we could make it a motivation to think and create ideas pertaining to those hardships we encountered in our life. We need not to be afraid of failures. Instead use those failures as fuels to light up your burning desire to succeed. Take it as lesson learned, never make it happen again. Move forward and dream high. Our own hobbies could also help us think of a playful, unique but also an idea with a lot of purpose. Just open your imaginative mind to create something new which could progress the quality of life. The second letter E stands for Enterprise Mastery. The word itself describes an idea on how to run business operations such as companies and marketing, and other business establishments. Lastly the D stands for development which refers to the development of the business itself. Planning the business starts here where you need to brainstorm with your team mates, write your ideas, present and defend it.

I said it was going to be brief but I kind of made it very long but oh well. So were gonna leap back and go again with self-mastery. Another way to know yourself better is the internal analysis. Internal Analysis basically means mastering oneself through asking the following questions:

· What you Love?

· What you are BEST at?

· What are your irritants?

While our facilitator was discussing these, this is the part where I started daydreaming. What do I love? I’ve started drifting off to reality and imagined all the things I love, anime, video games, you name all what otaku loves, it all became so clear to me what I really love. I started imaging things, generating ideas from the anime I’ve watched and BOOM! It hit me and the light bulbs just brighten and brighten until it blinded me that I snapped out of my self-induced hallucinations. What you are best at? I’m not particularly good at anything but I’m pretty confident with my drawing skills so why not something that involves graphics or anime characters. Ideas just keep on popping that I really had the urge to create a new business model canvass base on the idea that had me entranced and before I knew it the discussion was over. That particular discussion really helped me think an innovative idea or two and well what do you know I actually proposed it (I gave the idea to a friend for her presentation but she kind of got nervous and lost her concentration in explaining but I don’t blame her, it’s kind of really nerve-wracking when proposing to our facilitator) but still I gave it a shot and defend and explain it and luckily he approved it and it really made me happy and that really cheered me up because I was kind feeling down before that but I’m not going to tell why lol because it’s already kind of personal.