Power of a mistake

Lets just not say, "once upon a time". Lets be very very honest and say, "most of the time" .... this happens.

An engineer was inducted in the company, fresh, energetic, full of impractical ideas and false inventions. Glorifying the profession, passionate about the job, willing to make some marvels and totally non-aware of the actual situation, he entered the scene.

After a few lectures and meetings, he was assigned to design a road connecting two localities. He picked the project, researched it and came up with a new idea. When he pitched the idea infront of the individuals in control, he faced a lot of criticism. And finally he was instructed to follow the previous projects' methodology. Job was important so he followed the instructions, designed the project as per the previous methodologies. The art and passion was burried in the uniformity of correctness.

Now he is at a very very senior post, with 100+ projects' experience in his cv. Suddenly a junior came with a wrong idea and he realized, because of the uniqueness of this wrong idea, that he doesn't have 100+ project in his experience belt he has only one, with 99+ copies.

Of'course his idea was wrong too. But this was the biggest plus point. Because this shows that he was thinking differently. This is the power of the mistake. It opens new venues.

Its was once said but only a few understood that, 'when six people are 100% sure about something, its the duty of the seventh to perceive differently.'