A Mindset of Experimentation

One of the best books I have read this year is Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future by Margaret Heffernan.

The concept that stuck out to me the most was her emphasis on maintaining a Mindset of Experimentation.

The Mindset of Experimentation is a thought process that promotes the creation of new, novel ideas, even if some lead to failure.

Only through flirting with failure, can you discover the results that make a massive change.

(Just ask the Wright Brothers)

We have become so obsessed with consistent profit and predictable results that the mindset of experimentation has been optimized out of our equations.

Why make something truly unique that could become iconic in your industry when you could incrementally iterate your initial idea and copy from others to guarantee growth?

I believe maintaining a spirit of experimentation is important because without it we lose the novelty we all desire and replace it with iterations that hover around “good enough” without ever wowing us.

The way I have implemented this into my life is learning to be OK with not knowing.

A venture or task could work out or it could flop.

I won’t know until I try.

This has opened the door to many new ventures that I wouldn’t have taken earlier because they seemed too risky or unsure.

But only through trying new things can you get new results.

This doesn’t mean that every new task is a success but, through experimentation, I can find principles or ways of thinking that help me in other areas.

Where in your life do you need to adopt a mindset of experimentation?

In Mastery,

Matthew

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