środa, 12 czerwca 2013

make evolution, not revolution

I love changes and improvements, I always looking for new ways of doing thing faster, better, in more efficient way.

I know that would sound like a cliche, but if you're not going forward, you are going backward. It doesn't matter about what we are talking, is it job, learning, personal life, relationships or hobbies - we just need to get better. To be honest, I think it's natural and this is the way how human beings works - we get excited whenever we can try or learn something new, it's like journey to the unknown land. Who cares how many people already been there, know this and saw everything. Right now it's your turn.

Are you forced to learn and explore? Few of us can tell "yes", we were forced to learn ie. at school and I cannot argue with that.
Probably many of us remember at least a few subjects which were nothing more than nightmare and we were extremaly happy, when we finally finished our adventure with them and we knew, that we won't see anything related with it never again.
But was those experiences was the same for everyone? Even the worst subject was interesting for few people, they just wanted to know more. I believe, that except those bad experiences, there were also good one, with other subjects.

As you see, if we are focused on something, which we think is good to know, which would be useful for us or we just like to know more about it, there is no problem with learning. Hmm... Problem? This makes us happy!

I see only one problem with our willingness to learn - we want to know now, we need to try it now, we can't wait. Of course such an attitude got positive aspects - we are motivated and we are focused, we won't stop until we reach the goal.

What problems it can bring to us?
We can implement something new before we will get know it well, or at least on satisfactory level.
We can start to forcing people to try it, without tries to teach them how it works, what are benefits of doing/using it.

That's why is so important to do evolutions, not revolutions.
People are less afraid, because each step is something that can be reversed. Or at least fixed. They will be all the time in the safe place and won't even notice when everything around them will change. Because changes will came slowly, it would be natural, they would get use to it.

It's pretty easy to screw up even brilliant idea when we want to implement it on large scale. You need to learn people and show them what are the benefits, what are positive aspects, which bad things will be removed and it's easier to do so if changes are small. You have more time to show beauty of the solution. And they have more time to notice it.

Huge changes means bug risk and through breaking them into smaller steps, you minimizing it. If something will go wrong it would be easier to fix it, rethink, redesign or even move one step back and change the plan.

Everyone want to be revolutionists, but do revolution through evolution, you will just increase probability of success.

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