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Radiolab, their tagline is “on a curiousity bender”.

Just read this from the about page “Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. Big questions are investigated, tinkered with, and encouraged to grow. Bring your curiosity, and we’ll feed it with possibility.”

You don’t know what you don’t know and Radiolab will really drive that home if you listen.

Look here. Discovered via NewZealandDesignBlog.

Gaps, lego, movement.

Once you see it you understand.

Then you can do it yourself.

By doing it, the result tells more people.

Then you have a snowball.

Suddenly all gaps have lego.

Something unexpected.

Just a thought.

In my tests, broadly speaking, in fact generalising far too much this seems to be true.

Google = Seeking.

Facebook = Connecting.

Again, just a thought.  What do you think?

(Background: Male Social Media Fatigue, Results from our SPCA Campaign)

Just to revisit let’s look at Will Smith’s two things to be successful:

Running & Reading.

They do go hand in hand. Reading gives you knew ideas and running gives you an opportunity to digest them.

So why is it one person reads books takes away tremendous value and nada for others.

The reason I ask is I know plenty of intelligent people who read ‘the books’ yet they don’t appear to be that much improved by it.

The reason is opportunity, they don’t have the opportunity or the ability to make an opportunity to execute the ideas they’ve gleamed.

No opportunity = no risk = no success = no learning.

So why would we expect them to get the most out of it?

An elevator pitch helps investors. But what about your customers?

A quick technical paragraph might sum it up.

But do I understand it? When you look at a group of people conversations are going to ensure understanding. Not a one size fits all solution.

The “I have a dream” foundation says exactly that. By treating everyone as individuals their individual understanding and increase dramatically.

You have to know opportunity when it knocks, what it looks like (it looks like a challenge). Often it’s fun that looks like a challenge or a challenge that looks like fun.

You have to be prepared for it, opportunity is like going for a run between breaks in a thunderstorm, you watch for the opportunity, you know what it looks like but you have your running gear on.

You have to seize it, quick. Again YOU. That’s ‘your opportunity uncovered’ so attack.

Simple. Not hard.

How do you get better at making and seizing opportunities? Plan for hundreds of opportunities.

List all the stuff you want to do (it’s no co-incidence that Bill Gates plans a decade ahead and is able to seize the opportunities that allow him to complete them). And prepare for them.

The more you seize the more you learn to ignore that nagging voice inside which stops you, slows you down and really is the reason you can’t sleep at night.

Doing stuff can be as frictionless or as tough as you want it. You just need to refine that ability to push through and do what needs to get done.

In short you make opportunities through the three p’s: Planning, Preparing and Pouncing.

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