Observation
We want to believe that a lot of things that we do are unique and exclusive- Our happiness when a child is born or when a dog wags its’ tail or our sadness when we suffer heartbreaks. This is not true of course. In fact, as a member of homo sapiens we behave in a similar manner under similar circumstance. I was once thinking of names I could give to a my design company. It was really hard to come up with a good “new” name because most of the names I thought were already taken which demonstrate similar thinking in human beings. Once I felt really low about not knowing anything. Later I found that a name had been assigned it — Imposter Syndrome. See lots of people have felt it already and even assigned a name to it.
As a budding author and designer I used to think that authors and designers are great observers than other people. The sentence is correct until the comparison starts. After meeting lots of brilliant people the notion changed. And I have started to see things differently now. I found that almost all people are good observers — Farmers are expert weather predictor. Writers and psychologist can see the nuances of human behaviors. Physicist can observe neutrons and can tell apart one neutrons from another. Good businessmen can see market and tell trends. Thieves can watch a system, detect vulnerabilities and think of multiple ideas to exploit them. Researchers, social or mathematical or engineering, sustain on observation.
