Gypsy

not. Manipulate unskillfully or experimentally.

As an entrepreneur, you probably like to play. You probably like to ask a lot of questions to the point of becoming annoying. You may want to experiment with different machines by taking them apart. Or you may even want to take apart people’s sentences as they speak to you and analyze each word for its true meanings and intentions.

The mind that makes small arrangements is a great mind; it is a keen mind that is starved with a ravenous appetite for understanding, manipulation, and the unknown. If you’re not playing, then you should be.

Here is a list of 5 things you can start your touch-up journey with:

• 1.) When someone tells you something they’ve done and wants you to try it, do it, but make sure you play. For example, if your friend tells you to try a new brownie recipe, why not add some of your own ingredients to see if it tastes any better? It may or may not, but that’s not the point. The point is to try new things and experiment.
• 2.) If you like to read books, then start combining ideas you’ve learned from various books to create entirely new approaches to doing something. Many times when you combine two concepts they often have unknown synergistic effects.
• 3.) Never stop asking questions and trying to analyze everything that people tell you. If you don’t understand something, then ask more. If you want to know more about something, keep asking. It is always good to play with the knowledge you are learning from people. Because when you do that… sometimes you stumble upon new ways of thinking, new patterns of thought. Many teachers hate it when students butt into their lessons, but the entrepreneurial mind won’t accept it.
• 4.) Take things apart. Seriously, spend some time every now and then and take something apart, anything, it doesn’t matter. When you take things apart and try to learn how they were built, you are exercising your brain and using your creative energy to understand new concepts. After a while, you will be thinking on new levels and applying new knowledge to everything you do.
• 5.) Look for patterns and put things together. I like to look at random shapes and try to rearrange them in my mind. I imagine them from different angles, with different lengths, widths, add new dimensions, etc… this is good, because you are empowering your imagination with this kind of thinking.

I know… I know… many of you will find these suggestions a huge waste of time, but what do you have to lose? Not much. The bottom line here is to continue to exercise your mind and strive for knowledge and understanding in uncharted areas.

Entrepreneurs should never stop asking themselves how things work, why things are the way they are, and anything else they don’t understand or would like to learn more about.

Play with the world!