Jonathan Fields: " Work, play, entrepreneurship and life"

 Disruption is the seed of evolution. And innovation its spawn.

Why Judgment Matters

Last week, I shared how inviting judgment can and should be a critical part of any creation endeavor; how judgment is really just data plus emotion. And we shouldn’t reject the data simply because we’re not equipped to process the emotion in a constructive way.

Now, a word of caution…

Being open to outside opinions and data does not mean “surrendering” your intuition.

 

 know when the whole damn world has got it wrong and you’re the only sane person in the room…even if that means you’re viewed, for the moment, as the bastion of lunacy.

It’s important to invite feedback, but it’s also mission critical to maintain enough of a strong sense of independent vision and leadership to know when the whole damn world has got it wrong and you’re the only sane person in the room…even if that means you’re viewed, for the moment, as the bastion of lunacy.

Every new paradigm breaks an old one.

And the people who create, push, massage and shape these new constructs are inevitably viewed as nut-jobs, at least in the beginning. In part, because new paradigms necessarily unseat long-held “comforting” beliefs, and along with them the long-seated creators of the last big paradigm. And often, entire institutions, bodies of work and worlds.

 Judgment Be Damned