The revolution of change Tutorial

Discover the transformative journey of revolutionary ideas in 'The Revolution of Change'. Explore how concepts deemed ridiculous or dangerous evolve into accepted truths, drawing parallels from history to modern examples. Uncover the traits of visionary leaders who recognize potential diamonds in the rough and learn to embrace change for success. Join us to ignite your curiosity and reimagine your perspective on innovation.

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Our habit-filled and control in mind finds it disturbing its extra work for it.

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It will have to understand the change,

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adopt it,

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grope around until it gets it,

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perhaps,

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and finally master it.

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Then it will be able to retrieve its cherished control and regain its stability,

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being able to say it's OK,

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now I know it.

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I have mastered it.

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No wonder our mind often implements change avoidance strategies.

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Do you have a new idea that will bring about change?

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In short,

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a disruptive idea.

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First,

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your mind

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and or that of your entourage or of the mass

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consciousness will tell you that this idea is ridiculous.

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If you persist,

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it will tell you,

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or they will tell you that this idea is dangerous.

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If you persist and your idea was really good,

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they will eventually find it evident.

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Idris Abikain,

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inspired by Schopenhauer,

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speaks wonderfully well of these three phases.

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He states that any revolution in the history of humanity,

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whether political,

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philosophical,

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moral,

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technological,

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artistic,

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etc.

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systematically goes through three phases.

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First,

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this idea is considered ridiculous,

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then dangerous,

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and finally evident.

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An example,

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women's right to vote.

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1789 France

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Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen

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to talk about the female citizen

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is ridiculous.

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For 100 years,

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people shrugged their shoulders and laughed

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when they heard a woman ask for the right to vote.

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100 years later

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it became dangerous.

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Suffragettes were locked up,

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tortured,

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and as a last resort killed.

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It was very simple

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to have a woman committed to psychiatry at the end of the 19th century.

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New Zealand opened the right to vote to women

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in 1893.

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1906 Finland,

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1920 the USA.

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1928 England.

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1944 in France.

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Today women vote and it's completely self-evident.

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All revolutions have gone through these three stages.

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The earth is round,

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ridiculous,

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dangerous,

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evident.

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The earth revolves around the sun.

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Ridiculous,

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dangerous,

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evident.

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Slavery must be abolished.

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Ridiculous,

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dangerous,

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evident.

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Women must be able to wear trousers.

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The abolition of apartheid,

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ridiculous,

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dangerous,

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evident.

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All this followed the same thought process.

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Thomas Edison was an expert in electric current,

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rich and considered,

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he was influential and swore by direct current.

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The young scientist Tesla

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proposed his new alternating current technology to Edison.

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Edison at first found it ridiculous.

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He refused the project,

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arguing that Tesla's ideas are strictly unusable in practice.

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Later he lobbied to prove the dangerousness of

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the alternating current discovered by Nikola Tesla.

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Thomas Edison even went so far as to electrocute dogs and cats in public

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places in New York with alternating current to show that it was dangerous.

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Alternating current eventually prevailed from

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ridiculous to dangerous to evident.

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According to Aberain,

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most of the things around us,

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from the mix of people

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to our connected phones,

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went through these three stages.

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For us they are obvious,

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evident,

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but at one time they were not.

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But how do we know that an idea that seems ridiculous to

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us today is actually a revolutionary idea and could become evident tomorrow?

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Schopenhauer said that if an idea doesn't go through the stage of ridicule,

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it is not revolutionary,

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but the reciprocal is not true.

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Not every ridiculous idea will become revolutionary.

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In business,

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it is indeed very difficult for a decision maker to make at

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the beginning the difference between a revolutionary idea and a stupid idea.

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According to Aberain.

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The Sufi tradition states that the ruby is smaller than the mine,

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the ruby being the revolutionary idea and the mine being all the other ideas.

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How to recognize the ruby,

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how to find the ruby in the mine of ideas.

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The one who will make a fortune with rubies is the one who will go looking for them

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when they look like common pebbles.

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Bringing a revolution to the world requires going to

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look for the idea when it is indistinguishable,

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when it seems buried and similar to all vulgar pebbles.

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Ideas seem ridiculous at first because they are not

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in the field of knowledge of the mind.

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A poorly awakened mind does not see them and may miss out on treasures.

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If one puts it in front of its eyes and argues how much it is special,

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unique,

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unbelievable,

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then its curiosity may be aroused,

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may be.

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This is the hallmark of visionary leaders being able to

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see the ruby when everyone thinks the idea is ridiculous,

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ridiculous for Gandhi to believe that laws of

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discrimination against Indians can be abolished by petitions,

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appeals to opinion by the press,

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and peaceful civil disobedience.

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Ridiculous Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream.

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Steve Jobs' idea in the late 1970s that

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everyone should have a personal computer ridiculous.

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The leader knows how to change an idea from ridiculous to obvious evident.

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They recognize the ruby idea

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or potentially ruby ideas,

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whether they come from them or from others.

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They start to cut them

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or have them cut roughly in order to make a second sorting.

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Do I pursue this idea or do I give up?

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They make sure that resistance,

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skepticism,

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and fear is quickly overcome

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by their convincing speech.

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They push for action.

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Here we go,

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and

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they test.

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When you are given an idea and you immediately find it ridiculous or dangerous,

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smile and give it a chance.

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Maybe it's a ruby that will soon be evident to everyone.

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