How to Predict Your Way to Wealth & Create Winner Products! (Part I)

Author : Mike Mograbi

How to Predict Your Way to Wealth & Create Winner Products!

1. Break Out of Your Paradigms

Consider the following predictions, made by experts:

“This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously
considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently
of no value to us.” Western Union internal memo, 1876

“We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”
Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles in 1962

“The phonograph…is not of any commercial value.” Thomas Edison
remarking on his own invention to his assistant Sam Insull, 1880

“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.” Grover
Cleveland, 1905

“It is an idle dream to imagine that… automobiles will take the
place of railways in the long distance movement of… passengers.”
American Road Congress, 1913

“There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.”
Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize winner in physics, 1920

“The odds are now that the United States will not be able to
honor the 1970 manned-lunar-landing date set by Mr. Kennedy.”
New Scientist, April 30, 1964

"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in
explosives." Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project

“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who
would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?” David
Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment
in the radio in the 1920s

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
Ken Olsen, president of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” Harry Warner, Warner
Brothers Pictures, 1927

“I think there is a world market for about five computers.”
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

“Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and
insignificant, if not utterly impossible.” Simon Newcomb, an
astronomer of some note, 1902

"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future
scientific advances.” Dr. Lee De Forest

“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” Lord Kelvin,
president, Royal Society, 1895

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” Bill Gates, 1981

Question: What would make experts and people with great minds
like the ones just quoted make such 'humorous' predictions?

The answer is one word: The blinding power of PARADIGMS.

Even experts and professionals are sometimes unable to look past
their own paradigms.

What exacly is a 'paradigm'?

A paradigm is a set of rules and regulations (written or
unwritten) that does two things:

(1) it establishes or defines boundaries (mental, behavioral,
etc.); and (2) it tells you how to think anc behave inside the
boundaries in order to be successful.

Paradigms determine how people perceive the world. People see
best what they are 'supposed' to see. Prevailing paradigms
determine that.

Also people see poorly, or not at all, information and data that
does not fit into such paradigms. They are literally unable to
'see' things right before their very eyes.

Here's what you have to know:

The future of your business exists just outside the boundaries
of your industry's prevailing paradigm(s).

Free yourself from the mentally enslaving and paralyzing power
of prevailing paradigms and you'll see how easy it becomes to
come up with amazing discoveries and innovations.

A paradigm shift occurs when there's a breakout from an old
paradigm into a new set of rules.

Therefore, to be able to see the future and make accurate
predictions, you have to:

I. Think twice before you say 'impossible': Remember, advances
in technology are making the impossible possible. What is
“impossible” today is so only in the context of present
paradigms.

II. Look past prevailing paradigm(s).

III. Watch the rule breakers: Keep a close eye on professional
people messing with the rules, because that is the earliest sign
of significant change.

And when the rules change, the whole world can change.

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