Some much with so less. Just 15 Secs Video
One of my friends sent me this link and this made me think. rather i should say wonder.
But why did this make such a deep impact on me? It has to do with what i am doing. let us just go ahead with this; on a lighter note.
Just a hypothetical interview with myself. When no one is there to ask questions, better ask ourselves. A hack from "Six thinking hats" of Edward Debono
1. Question: What is the nature of your business?
Answer: Education, Research and Entrepreneurship
Critic: Well, you don't seem to have focus.
My View: I am not able to distinguish between all three. They are inseparable. did my best to explain it in "The story of a tagline".
Hacked from: From personal experience.
2. Question: Whom do you think is your customer?
Answer: Any one interested in learning. From school, college or industry
Critic: Well. You don't seem to have a target customer
Answer: If my view 1 is valid, this should be valid.
Hacked From: Euclid's Elements,
3. Question: What is your administrative policy?
Answer: A happiness centered organization
Critic: Well. The whole world is talking about Professionalism, Smartness and Profitability.
My view: A Happiness centered environment would be more creative.
Hacked from: 13 year old logan. Please spare 11 min and 13 secs. In fact the title was hacked from this kids use of the word "Hack Schooling".
4. Question: What is the road map for your institution?
Answer: Establish an evolution based science park (Education), Create an infrastructure for tele- robotics (Research), Support for innovators (Accelerator)
Critic: You need a big tag and big money.
My View: There is always a way out. Take on a participative approach.
Hacked From: Rather than hacked, i would prefer to use the word inspiration. There are many inspiring stories of groups going on to create better homes, companies, villages, cities and even countries.
5. Question: How do you categorize your institution?
Answer: Social Entrepreneur. There are different "preneurs". Entrepreneur, Edupreneur, Techpreneur etc. I even ended up creating few more. The Studentpreneur and Teacherpreneur
Critic: That is a tough game. Either be a for profit or a non-profit. This is midway.
My view: Money is required. But it is not the only requirement.
Hacked From: Quote "Don't Sell. Assist people to Buy"
6. Question (based on question 3): What is your opinion on creativity?
Answer: The strategies are Think like an Inventor (Re-invent the wheel), Imagine as though the problem or solution is obsolete (make it obsolete) and more importantly just keep working with an open mind.
Critic: If things are not broken, don't try to fix it.
My View: Creativity comes from our experience and openness. So the core idea is to redefine the problem in the way we understand.
Hacked From: Creativity Crisis
7. Question: How did you come up with this title?
If you have come this far, you would really appreciate the difficulty i go through in communicating to the world of what i am or my company is doing. It has been a long journey.
Why go that distance? for that matter, i had difficulty in introducing myself. All that i could do was come up with an article "The hard part of life is to introduce oneself"
The question that i raised to myself was, How to be creative?. That eventually led me to ask the opposite question of what is not creativity (using our making it obsolete principle)?
So, this is where it took me. There were articles on the role of educational institutions, parents, teachers and organizations affect creativity.
How educational institutions kill creativity - close to 400 million views.
How Teachers kill creativity
How parents kill creativity
Whether it is parents or schools that kill creativity ( books shown in the video are great ones)
How companies kill creativity
With that said. what is the lesson learnt?
I have considered unschool, deschool, alternate school, home school. Now, i have landed into "hack school". But a school in the current sense deals mostly with teaching and does not have much emphasis on research and entrepreneurship.
May be we should apply the principles of re-invent and make-it-obsolete.
homeschool, homeoffice..... what about home college? looks like it is leading somewhere...
Name of the business entity seems ok. Aatrral represents energy. The initial tag line was "Identify Potential. Create Value". After about 2 years, the tag line has evolved into "The temple of acceleration". More on this here .... ("The story of Tagline"). As we evolve, we might change again.
May be we have not asked the right questions as yet.
The search continues........ I have to come up with something like the 15 sec clip (a hack again) that we began with.
Foot Note:
came up with this article as an after thought.
http://openneuron.blogspot.in/2016/04/cutoff-vacation-try-hackation.html
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