Enthusiastic. Experimenter. Expert.
A perspective on my valuable time on Earth, and is an interesting feedback loop mechanism for myself. I hope you will find it of interest to you.
Here is the visual framework and take it easy, it is not meant to be accessed academically.
Enthusiastic #
A definition for enthusiastic is to be filled with an ardent motivation and interest for something.
What are you enthusiastic about?
Let me share a personal example as a case study.
Thrilled by Lean Start-Up, I read the book and read blog articles about it. Consciously as well as unconsciously, I have been putting into practice the Lean Start-Up methodology in a lot of aspects of my personal and professional life.
By the way, I will be mentoring at Lean Startup Machine Workshop in Lisbon in a couple of weeks.
The tough part is to explain WHY I am enthusiastic about the Lean Start-Up. In short and in my personal opinion, I believe the Lean Start-Up guides me as an entrepreneurial person to innovate and do things faster under uncertainty conditions.
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Experimenter #
My definition of an experimenter is simple. Someone who experiments. You do something, you measure (or analyse) the impact and you learn from it through feedback from your environment.
What are you constantly experimenting about?
Life is an experiment. Don’t we have ups and downs? I guess that will be my simplest explanation. Every day, my routine remains more or less the same but through time, I stop and take a pause to think over what I am doing.
Is it the correct way of doing this?
Were these actions necessary?
What are the major expenses which are less valuable to me?
As an experimenter, there are 3 things that I quantify & track, as rigorously as possible,
- Time spent sleeping against mood,
- Weekly expenditure against financial goals,
- Amount of time spent walking against amount of time spent sitting
No graphs. Yet, I think you can pretty much picture something.
What else could you experiment about?
- What are you enthusiastic about?
- How much of your resources (time, energy, money, brain power) do you allocate for enthusiastic thing(s) of yours?
- What are the actual outcome(s) - benefits/feelings?
- What could be a better and more desirable outcome?
Expert #
And this all lead to the final stage, which is about becoming an expert. The latter, by definition, could mean to be an authority in a field, a specialist with or without many years of experience. The last part is said with a bit of irony. I’m no expert at my own framework but I’m getting there…through my self-driven attitude, proactive behaviour…and a lot of experimenting and learning.
What are you an expert at?
Something that you are really really really good at?! And it does not matter if you believe there are a million of other people who could be possibly as good as you are or even better. I am asking YOU
For me, it has been quite tough for a while for me to figure it out. This is what I am really really good at - Thinking in an unusual usual way
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Call me an entrepreneur. Call me a strange individual.
My question to you is,
What are you an expert at?
Yes. Knowing what you are an expert at is not easy. It results from being enthusiastic about something and then, running a lot of experiments until you become what you should become.
Think about it, a great PHD student is someone who has an inner motivation to become an expert in a field of his/her interest and to reach his/her goal, there will be a lot of trial and error along the way.
But it is not the end of the journey once this PHD student finally earns his/her doctoral degree. Things are constantly evolving because human beings, by nature, are curious and eager to change. Within a few months or years, an expert may no longer be an expert if (s)he does not remain motivated and driven by his/her area(s)…
Hence the need to continuously experiment…and to become, re-become an expert over and over again. Enthusiastic.Experimenter.Expert is a simple feedback loop mechanism.
One area of interest is, as mentioned earlier, Lean Start-Up. Yes, I want to become an expert at it and advise/mentor early stage to growing start-ups about their development (product, process, outcome, etc). There are plenty of other areas which I am particular keen on. I will be blogging and sharing my blog posts on my Twitter and my Linkedin.
Life is a series of experiments, with a lot of (in)finite loops. Don’t waste time.
