[EXPERIMENTS.] Do you experiment with your attire when faced with a situation where your usual wardrobe won’t work? Do you experiment with an additional job responsibility in absence of your superior? Food, clothing, movies, music, books, writing, designing, hair-do, strategy, marketing! We certainly have multiple avenues where we’re put in a spot with the need to experiment with something. It is inevitable. What is in your control is to make it count! Experiment consciously, with full intent. Without bias and prejudice. Of the few other things, one aspect of my routine is definitely a result of an honest experimentation – writing blogs! Only when I put the right reasons to get started, I could make the experiment count. In being recognized in my circles as a regular blogger, I must admit that the bigger struggle was to find the correct intent and way of experimenting, not the experiment itself! It is very easy to escape something out of your normalcy, saying that it’s not my cup of tea; somebody else should do it. There are two aspects; experimentation does not mean executing something to perfection, really! It is about finding what will and will not work, about a situation. After you find it (and even during the process), you can and should seek assistance from those who can run with it better. For instance, recently I experimented with a logo design for a friend. The intent was clear – I wanted to solve the identity problem. While I knew I lacked the necessary artistic skills for the job and would require a specialist to get to a finished output, the process did not stop. We experimented to clearly finding out what elements would and would not work for the logo, which fonts and colors are appropriate and otherwise. And we could easily hand it over to a specialist when we found one – with meaningful direction. We need to remind ourselves that experimentation is not a profession, married only to researchers and scientists. Embracing a challenging situation with a crystalized intent does yield usable results – even if the experiment “fails!” You are allowed to shout: “I failed on purpose!” Let’s do it with a definite purpose. We experiment all the time, without realizing at times. Get conscious. Measure it. Share it. Let’s make it count all the time.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 07:40:26 +0000
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