Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Think vs. Observe

         
   I arrived at the following conclusion yesterday:
"Great people are those who see the unseen; greater people are those who show other people the unseen and bring them to them".
            I have been pondering over the above for a couple of months and it became vivid to me when Nima (my very best friend) and I were getting back home last evening from a meeting with Prof. Mohammed Minhaj, also my good friend and consultant.
On the way, Nima told me, "we don't think enough!" and I told him "we don't observe enough either!".
Although they seem to be two different things, they are quite similar in many ways. Observation requires one to get immersed in the surroundings and not isolate themselves from them. On the other hand, thinking is a process that takes place in brain with an input fed by observation in order to arrive at a conclusion which in a way is an isolated process.
Coming back to earth and leaving the philosophy off for a while, I can say, at the end of the day, it's these two things that have helped and led human being to the top of the pyramid and superior among other species.
If you notice, every thing that has created a buzz and attraction, is new in some way! We love new stuff, new things to wear, new places to see, new foods to eat, and new things to experience. The problem is, we need to look for them! They are either hard to find or hard to get. Even if they're found, they are expensive to buy or access.
It is easy to get or create new things but hard at the same time! It's like the famous saying: "Simple is hard"; If you want to explain something to someone in a simple way so they understand it better, you should know it very well which in turn requires you to spend time and energy to learn it.
New ideas, new ways of doing things, new approaches and methods, have something in common to find out: observe the surroundings, think about your observations, connect your thoughts back to your observations and you'll arrive at the bigger picture of what you have observed. With the bigger picture, you can easily see a whole new, different world of the same objects you have previously observed.
A step further to the above is bringing your observations to other people and helping them see the different world.



Iman Ghavam