How & Why

How & Why

It’s About The Why

Understanding The How

Since the ear­li­est mem­o­ries of our child­hood molded by some of the most influ­en­tial peo­ple we will ever encounter, our teach­ers, we have been taught to lineup, con­form and learn our A B C’s.

Life became struc­tured at a very early age as did our beliefs, ways of think­ing and our own sense of identify.

We all remem­ber our home­work assign­ments, research, find­ing the right answers, doing what is expected — a tetra­he­dron does not fit into a round hole.

Mem­o­riza­tion is para­mount if we want to pass our exams. Con­di­tion­ing and ver­ti­cal, lin­ear, sequen­tial think­ing has over­taken our cre­ative, ran­dom, abstract think­ing process of youth.

Now as adults we have roles and expec­ta­tions to live up to. Hus­band, Wife, lover, friend, mother, father, pro­fes­sional and social life. The role demands and tugs on our life is never-ending.

Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man

We are either cogs in a machine, doing what our supe­ri­ors expect of us, tak­ing their direction, downsizing, out sourc­ing, clo­sures or new career choice, the rea­sons are end­less and sud­denly find­ing our­selves in unfa­mil­iar ter­ri­tory. The Glad­i­a­to­r­ial arena of cre­ativ­ity and inno­v­a­tive thinking for our very survival.

Those of you read­ing this arti­cle on a tablet expe­ri­ence first hand how modern, advanced tech­nol­ogy is defin­ing how we do things and man­age our life. Some­thing new, hor­i­zon­tal, inno­v­a­tive think­ing is chang­ing our life once again.

Per­haps you are a busi­ness owner, an entre­pre­neur, a per­son look­ing for a career change or want­ing some­thing more in life.

Money will not make you happy but it cer­tainly makes life more comfortable.

What will make you happy you ask? Ful­fill­ment will.

Thus… The Why.

The How Never Pre­cedes The Why

The How is assem­bling and uti­liz­ing the under­stood, the process to achieve an end, a desired out­come.

If I do this, because it is a known expe­ri­ence, that will hap­pen. Ver­ti­cal, sequen­tial, lin­ear think­ing is learnt in acad­e­mia. Our A, B, C’s.

Many busi­ness peo­ple, pro­fes­sion­als, ama­teurs, devel­op­ers and design­ers are conditioned by vertical thinking, ‘The How’.

Few know or understand ‘The Why’.

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Perils of Linear Thinking

Vertical Thought Built & Sunk The Titanic

Laid down on 31 March 1909 and completed on 02 April 1912, she sank on her maiden voyage in the numbing, teeth chattering, black abyss of the North Atlantic, in the dread of night on 15 April 1912, slipping into the depths as the ships band played Auld Langs Syne, claiming 1,514 souls.

The nautical thinking, paradigms of the era are shattered, laid to ruin, strewn about like broken Champagne  glasses of celebration throughout the rooms and hallways of belief.

The impossible happened— the unsinkable has sank.

RMS Titanic depart­ing Southamp­ton 10 April 1912

RMS Titanic departing Southampton
10 April 1912

Dr. Albert Einstein understood Ver­ti­cal Think­ing as doing the same thing over and over again and expect­ing dif­fer­ent results. Throw­ing more money at it, spend more hours on it or succumb, acquiescing to defeat. It is what it is until the perception of what it is changes— transforming whatever it is into something else! Re-frame it.

Think­ing Horizontally

Why do some sites suc­ceed, while the vast major­ity fail? The answer is in ‘The Why’. It’s easy to know ‘The How’ but what about ‘The Why’?

How To Think Horizontally

Nor­mally we ask our­selves How, Why or When, all seek­ing a pre­de­ter­mined answer. Now ask your­self these questions:

  • What if?
  • What would it be like?
  • How would it be?

It is not easy, for it is Hor­i­zon­tal think­ing; your brain is not accus­tomed to it. It is some­thing you were never taught — The Why.

Once you know ‘The Why’ and bridge it con­cep­tu­ally you will have a pow­er­ful pres­ence and a vehi­cle to accom­plish your goals, produce or design whatever it is you desire.

Try it and you will dis­cover new ways of prob­lem solv­ing or cre­at­ing some­thing that does not exist.

It’s Not About The How, It’s About The Why!

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. – Herodotus (485 – 425 BC)

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