The seemingly infinite growth of Information technology is creating a need for entrepreneurs to go beyond being infopreneurs (providers of information) and become what I call insightpreneurs (providers of insight).
In trying to define insight, I was reminded of a time I saw a person being taught to karate-chop a piece of timber bare-handed. The secret was in focusing her mind on an impact point beyond the piece of timber. She split the timber as though it were paper.
Insight is much like karate – focusing the mind intuitively beyond the issue to the bigger picture of causes and effects within which the issue finds its being. The changed perception of the issue opens up a whole new dimension of unexplored options for its resolution.
The world desperately needs insightpreneurs. Thought leaders who can perceptively comprehend and discern issues in new, unexplored ways. Without them our thought processes are likely to be crushed under the exponentially-increasing weight of information overload.
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