The Art of Being Unreasonable.
2012
There’s a quote by Michael Bloomberg at the beginning of the book
“ If you want to achieve the impossible, you have to start being unreasonable.”
Note START. I’ll talk about it later in my presentation.
WHY NOT FORMULA
CH 2. “ why not” is the first step to success.
Reading this chapter, something didn’t sit right with me.
If I’m walking along a bridge, I can say, “ why not jump off.”
I had a hard time figuring out how to ask the right “why not question.”
I kept reading
Two main factors to help you ask the right why not
Ch 6. Priorities
Ch 8. Risk
I reworded these two factors into a way that was more specific and that I could understand
Priorities- value assumptions - ranked values, one over the other, change in every context, and thought your life.
Risk- Opportunity cost “ What do I have to lose a whats the worse that can happen.”
Here are my math problem and my little formula
Context: make 75,000 a year. My husband just lost his job.
Value assumption: supporting my family over personal growth
Situation: At my work I get the opportunity to transfer to another city where I will initially get the same salary but will get more chance of growth
Why Not (wrong): opportunity cost, value assumptions. I’m prioritizing feeding my family, so spending so much money to move to a different city wouldn’t help. Yes, they offer me more chance at personal growth, but that’s not as important to me this month of my life.
Why Not ( right): Why not stay back and push. Why not still grow. Why do I have to depend on the work environment and the people around me to grow? Why not show my boss just how dedicated and willing to work and learn. Why not put in my 100% effort and raise my salary at work or ask for a raise. me
This is the right why not question because it satisfies my value assumptions, and it has the right opportunity cost.
Asking “why not” is the first step to success, but you have to make sure its the right “ why not”
If being unreasonable and thinking unconventionally was a game
We would be the main characters.
The big boss at the end would be something like the American Education System.
We can’t just start the game and challenge the big boss.
Will power alone isn’t enough.
Were not a strong enough level
We need experience points to level up.
Push ourselves to ask the RIGHT “ why not’ question throughout our life.
Even if we fail, analyzing what we did wrong
The more and more we level up, the farther away we get from the conventional thinking way.
When faced with something seemingly impossible, the big boss, we’re now able to think of that creative solution because we trained ourselves to think differently.
Quote by Michael Bloomberg at the beginning of the book
“ If you want to achieve the impossible, you have to start being unreasonable.”
Eli Broad was able to tackle so many big bosses because of how many experience points he has from being unreasonable his whole life.
Other ways to get experience points:
Not just asking the right why not, but seeing other people ask it too. As a Business major planning to go to an art school, I feel like I had to touch on this a little bit if we have time.
Art is a visual representation of that correct, why not thinking. Artist pushes themselves EVERY DAY to think of that new out of the box idea.
I visited the broad last year, and truthfully, I didn’t understand it at that point. It made me feel left out because I couldn’t appreciate it the way others did.
This past year in quarantine, pushing myself to see that thinking, and I think I succeeded.
My best advice and easiest way to get into art would be to watch shows like project runway, next in fashion, glow up, etc.; these compititions shows push artists to innovate. It’s so inspiring, and just watching this gives you experience points.
