Sometimes Ya Gotta Admit Something CAN Work…

I grew up on Star Trek.  I would change the last line to say “to where no ‘human’ has gone before”, however times have changed since then…
 

I also grew up with a Spock outlook on just about everything…

 

I, for whatever reason, thought a bit about Star Trek today when I was in a position to “admit” something was good, even though I did not like the added work it meant to me.

While thinking on this, I did some random Google  search on Star Trek, and found this little gem:

 7 Life Lessons You Can Learn From ‘Star Trek'.  

LOVED IT!!!

Some of them you can really take to heart… and some are kinda funny… but are easy to relate to…

I am pretty much brutally honest/opinionated/questioning on anything that is brought before me.  It is part of who I am.  I “Function as Designed”, not always pretty or sweet or nice, but usually forthright…

I was approached recently with a potential change in processes that would require more work on my end.  I looked at it from my end first:  I am kinda self-oriented, but not quite narcissistic.  It would not pass this “test”. 

Next, I looked at it in the “eyes of the stakeholders”… I could find no problem with it here.  In fact, here it was needed/necessary.   Awe… I hated to admit it, but it was the right thing to promote.

So… there I sat… for 10 seconds… deliberating… In the old cartoon of “Angel/Devil on Shoulder”, it doesn’t fly with me… I am about what makes the best sense… has the most logic… I caved.

I agreed with the proposal… and managed to fit in why I wished I could find a way not to.

Innovation is about listening… about opening up to new ideas/thoughts/processes… About being past yourself…  and learning about "fulfillment" .

I will always want to innovate what I do, who I am, what I see… but I will never do so without questioning it and seeing if it makes “logical” sense to me.  There is a fine line between “going with the flow” and having a reason to do so.   That fine line requires thinking and understanding how you think.

You should never give in/give up just because the status quo does so… but you should never be so blinded by stubbornness that you cannot see if something is meaningful… it’s all about perspective/balance/understanding.   And if you are not sure… de-focus… and come back to it later with a fresh set of eyes/ears.