thinking like a child
our school system tends to prevent us from “thinking like a child”! artists would often hold art workshops not only for the purpose of teaching kids the love for the arts but to be also amazed with kid’s artworks that is beyond societal inhibitions! a great influence for an entirely different set of artworks for an art show.
same with business, our school system make us believe that a lot of concepts are impossible. parang impossibility is the only possibility. parang if you hear of specualative business concepts people will tend to shrug it off and line delineating words of non-acceptance. if you make it they’ll buy a book from you! ofcourse one of the favorite lines i read, “entrepreneurs write the experience in a book, while employee-types love to read the hard experiences and propagate the book without acting”. perhaps its true. perhaps we are so wired with impossibilities in our educational system that we have automatic-eject mechanisms when we hear of speculative things. And will only flip acceptance if we see real results. to think ideas are of the same value when it was just on “plant stage” and “reap stage”, however the “plant stage” is more exciting!
i’ll write some seemingly impossible things i did in the past 4 months and i will do in the following 4 months.
1. converting a 20-peso (5 for the sack and 15 for the scrapper) bag of thrash to a 180,000 - 350,000 worth artpiece (see accumosaic.com). look at the photo of the entry st. anthony public art commission.
2. have revenues of 4-6M per store per month (opening apr 15 2007) from satellite tv equipments and subscriptions sales, after-sales support, spareparts and people service with only 200,000 in capital! any cpa would think that its 1:240 equity to sales ratio. a very risky proposition if not impossible! (note: 4 years to process an approval for this business concept inside sm malls and good reputation from creditors)
3. sell 20,000 peso worth of water a day with 95% gross profit ratio per sm mall! how to do that? 10,000 8oz of water per sm mall at 2 pesos per glass! 4 vendos. use sm’s glasses sa foodcourt para water and electricity lang ang cost. (note: we are building this vendos ourselves!)
please share a lot of impossible things that you would flip into the realm of possibilities.
