Small or great doesn’t matter, I love to make discoveries! They are always enlightening and never boring. They can be refinements but a discovery is terrific whether it is a warning regarding what you are doing or a new understanding! It can be an ‘out of the box’ thinking, it can be a different approach to what you are involved with. Regardless, discovery is by definition always new… even when it is a re-discovery. I’ve always been one that looked for options, alternatives and I think this mindset puts me in a position to be aware of new possibilities, of new discoveries.
Discoveries always provide different/new ways of considering whatever you are involved in. They can also help you consider those out of the box thinkings than may seem random and unrelated. Some are but not always. However, what I find absolutely delightful are the discoveries that find you! They do you know. These kinds of discoveries are somewhat serendipitous but always interesting and typically about something that you aren’t thinking about.
When/if you are open to discoveries, they may impact what you’re doing or how you go about doing what you’re doing. Sometimes they lead you on a different path and sometimes they merely show you some of the things you may be missing because you are intent and a bit myopic. Never let these ‘intrusions’ into your established methods and ways be lightly dismissed but also don’t let them automatically get you off the path you are on. Refine, yes. Cast off unthinkingly, never.
I tend to put ‘discoveries’ in the same category as ‘adventures’ – they shake up the status quo and either confirm or provide different ways of thinking and doing things. Unquestionably it is your attitude about these interruptions that determines their value… regardless of their value. Your experience and comfort with the ‘different’ typically either makes one dig in their heels or welcome them. And yes there are other complications such as: time lines for task completion, your position as team member or team leader, resources, energy, others’ vested interests… and I could go on. The point should be that discoveries can be embraced or denied.
… but, what do you think?
