“Having the potential and not using it is as good as not having potential”
I learnt this from my dad who always believed that actions speaks louder than words. I had called him up to talk about new ideas, he listened to them but then questioned what was going on at my workplace and what I was doing. I explained to him about the initiatives that I was working on and told that I am meeting my deadlines and delivering the deliverables.
His next question was “Have you given your best at the place where you are working?” I couldn’t say yes cause I know I didn’t give my best, I replied that I had met my targets anyway and there were multiple constraints for me to start any initiatives of my own although I was a part of the innovations team. His remark was “So the targets were set for you, so, did you not set your own targets? Just because there are constraints, does it stop you from trying out new things? When did you start letting “external constraints” stop you from thinking or innovating? It doesn’t matter if the initiatives you come up fails or does not get accepted but what matters is that you keep coming up with something new, your constant flow of new ideas and associative innovations should make the company executives think what they can do when one person can do so much. These lines made me think and I was like “Shoot! he is right, my mind was never confined by anything” and thats what made me think different.
The next day, I jotted down a list of constraints which we face from the innovations team to figure out a workaround to come up with new ideas and test them as quickly as possible with actual users.