Paris: some more small progress for Twain
Readers may recall that back in July 2009 I wrote a blog post about revolutionizing the US$ billions cosmetic industry by me thinking of a potential cross-pollination of two products from different sectors:
Well, folks, I ran this by my good friend GC because he knows a lot about everything — unfortunately, apart from the cosmetics sector so he didn’t quite understand the opportunity gap or what the manufacturing involved would entail. He does, though, know how industrial materials are engineered and can explain the finer intricacies of finance which means we have some great conversations about models and processes that resulted in the global financial crisis.
Anyway, as destiny would have it I found myself wandering along the Champs Elysée and into a hive of the cosmetics industry. “EUREKA!” the person I needed to touch base with who would understand the innovation I had in mind appeared from nowhere (which I’m reading as some sort of weird synchronicity). Subsequently, I’ve made a video and sent it direct to the founder of a really cutting-edge cosmetics brand.
What’s the lesson from this?
If you have a good idea — even if it’s not immediately obvious to anyone else and doesn’t seem to have immediate relevance or application — always store it somewhere good in your brain, nurture it with regular check-ups and stay open to any random event(s) or encounter(s) that might happen to synergize the next steps towards its realization.
In a sense, our lives are circular works-in-progress. We continuously revisit topics, to-dos and issues which are only partially solved / resolved; it can be like that movie, Groundhog Day. Each time it happens we simply bring improved tools or a more conscious self to tackling those topics, to-dos and issues.
Some of us consistently repeat past mistakes, some stay in blissful states of ignorance or inertia, and some of us……….resolutely plot those paths of difference and try to DNA those circular works-in-progress.