Non-Obvious 2017: How To Think Different, Curate Ideas and Predict The Future

The business opportunity is to operationalize ways to transform these people – whether they are consumers or employees – into being actively loyal instead.

REAL LIFE ADVICE (3 WAYS TO THINK MORE ELEGANTLY TODAY) Start with the Obvious

Trend curators don’t seek needles, they gather the hay and then create the needle to put into the middle of it.

Elegance In Science, argues that elegant proofs or theories have most or all of the following features: they are simple, ingenious, concise and persuasive;

Being fickle means capturing ideas without needing to fully understand or analyze them in that same moment.

Being thoughtful means taking the time to reflect on a point of view and share it in a considered way.

At least 50% of pundits seem wrong all the time. It’s just hard to tell which 50%.

Discovering trends takes a willingness to combine curiosity with observation and add insight to create valuable ideas that you can then test to ensure they are valid.

Being thoughful is harder to do when everyone seems to expect thinking to come in real time. Yet the people who are routinely thoughtful are the ones who gain and keep respect. They add value instead of noise...and you can be one of them.