Are We ready to move to Imagination Age

I am sure that all of us remember the transition which human civilization had from Agriculture Age -> Industrial Age-> Information Age. Now we are moving to Imagination Age.

Imagination Age: This is the age in which the things which only few of us would have imagined or the things which none of us would have imagined are going to happen. In this age, the one who is going to come up with NEW INNOVATIVE IDEAS will have the power. This age demands for people who are creative, who can come up with ideas that no one has even thought of. This is the age of imagination. This is the age of human brain. As artificial intelligence is gaining power, the human race will find it difficult to survive. The only way to survive will be to beat the artificial intelligence. The only way to do this will be by utilizing the power of our brains. The good news is that scientists have said that humans do not use even 10% of their brain in their lifetime. So survival in this age is going to be only by optimizing our brain, maximizing our brain, actually understanding the operation of the brain, by being master of new ideas. Don’t copy anyone else’s ideas as those days are gone where someone came up with an idea, someone copied it, then someone else also copied it, then lot of people in society copied it. Companies were formed around those copied ideas. Then they started struggling to differentiate themselves in marketplace as every company was selling the same idea. Therefore, the innovative idea of one day became commodity of tomorrow. This process from innovative idea to commodification took several decades. However, in current information age; this has been reduced to few years. In Imagination age this will be reduced to few months.

Therefore, the question comes on what we need to do survive in Information age. Below are few suggestions.

·        Determine what you want to achieve in life and by when you want to achieve that: Be very selective in your life and be very clear on where you want to reach in life and by when you want to reach there. Then ponder on following questions.

o  Are you consuming the right information to generate right thoughts, which will take you there by the time, you want to be there

o  Are you allowing only that information to reach to your brain which will help you to reach to your desired destination

o  In case you do not have any objective in your life then you sit alone at a quiet place for few hours to get an idea of what you want to do in life. If you will not do this then you be a failed human being in coming future. 60-70% of jobs will be transformed so you can not depend on the jobs which you are doing today as people at lower prices and much junior levels will be available to do what you do today. In case you are doing a mundane job then Artificial Intelligence and Robotics will replace them in next few years

·        Come up with your own idea: Start developing your imagination part of the brain and work on that instead of copying someone else’s idea

·        Explore the power of the brain by doing the following.

o  Protect the brain: Brain is a processing unit. Whatsoever you put in the brain is processed into thoughts. These thoughts define the future. So if you want to be a successful person then you need to be very careful in this information age on what type of information is getting into your mind at the time when the whole world is overloaded with the information. Those who will be able to determine the type of information they need to feed in the brain will be more successful compared to those who will just take in whatsoever comes on their way.

o  Don’t allow to get all the junk information in the brain: Today you open a TV channel, social media, talk to a friend, read newspaper; everything is filled with lot of information. Be very selective on what you need v/s what you do not need

o  Create an operating manual for your brain: In case you have not yet created any operating manual for your brain and just process any information which comes on your way into thoughts then start practicing meditation as that will create gap between the time an information is received to the time you react to that information. Learn how to operate the brain in best possible manner.

In case you have been a failure in your life until now then in this information age you can still become a successful personality just by using the power of your brain as they say there is no minimum or maximum age for any human being to be a successful personality. If you want to get more details then watch the videos of Sanjeev Nair on Future Trends as several of these points are from this speech.