5 steps to think critical in emergency times (designers tools)

Welcome. This is Jagadeesh. Thank you for staying tuning in with me in Design for Change podcast. So every designer is actually thinking always to be a perfect designer, perfect thinker, perfect concept, perfect idea. Right? But everything collapses when it comes to situation. A pressure, a timeline, a kind of financial, what you call urge resources is very scared towards the project. So all your creativity and the real innovation gets switched off. How do you really overcome that? If you are a business owner, if you are a student, if you are a designer who are working in industry, this podcast is going to address that. Welcome guys. Welcome, welcome. So the today topic is actually about critical thinking and being creative during emergency times. Like let's say during uncertain times where you will not be able to think in your normal way. Right? It's a very common trait which designer used to always get. It's not like you cannot say, hey, I'll not get this kind of situation. I'm always prepared. You can be prepared to a certain extent, but it's not possible. So I'm going to be telling you five steps how you can really overcome this and you can become a critical thinker as well as think creatively in a stipulated time in a most win win situation. Right. Most of all that's important. It's not only you win, it's not only the customer win, it's about both of you get win win, Right? Yes. So the first step is actually don't be perfect. That's the step one. You should not be perfect at all. See, tight deadlines will come. Pressure will come from your clients, your boss, your subordinates, or maybe anything like let's say if you're investors in case of your developing a product or getting incubated. So you should never become perfectionist. Pressure will always come waiting for perfectionist. And perfectionism will actually kill all these things. And you will definitely get into a trap of all these people and you will get more pressure then. So you should avoid perfectionism. See, perfectionism will come over the time. See, we always don't start something great. We always evolve as a great. This is a law of nature. If you do not understand it. Let me repeat you again. We become perfect over the time. We evolve. We don't start with perfectionism. Many people did not start designing a concept because of this. Many people did not want to give a speech in the stage because of this. Many people did not wanted to write a book because of this. Many people have switched off their relationship because they wanted to become perfect and they wanted to go and propose. Right? I hope this four situations should have made you clear why perfectionism is actually a disease. So that's a step one. That removal will make you more critical thinker and creative thinker. Okay? The second step is actually being calm and relaxed. So you need to relieve the stress. Think of the worst case scenario of what is going to happen if this is not happening. Worst case, what? You'll walk back to the home. You'll lose your job, right? But nothing is more important than than your well being and your health. People get stressed a lot and get heart attack and get cholesterol. They get lot of problems because of this. Office stress and design stress and the team stress and the project stress and the job stress and the society pressure and peer stress. What is that, do you think? How many people are getting suicide? I've read, I've heard personally lot. Many school students are committing suicide because of that pressure and stress. They are not able to manage their stress at their younger age. Eventually they come somehow they escape that situation and come to office again. They are still worried again when they start a business again. The cyclists keep repeating whatever they do. Unless until you don't know how to relieve that, you will not be able to give you. You will not be able to bring out your full potential. I'll tell you three steps, guys, how you can break out that. Think of the worst case scenario. What will happen? You will die. That's it, right? When you die, you will not even know that you died. So it's what are the worst case scenario? It will happen. You will go bankrupt. Or maybe bank people will come and stand in front of you. Nobody's going to stab you, right? Nobody's going to stab you or putting you in a jail or something. So even if that happens, think of the worst case. You will definitely become calm. The second thing is actually think about the one person whom you think you will get embraced in front of them, right? We always have this kind of innate stress built on. Oh, what if this person says something to me? Hey, what if this person thinks something about me? What if I do like this and they will think about something? Think of that one person. You will not get distracted with hundreds of person. You will get distracted with only one person. Think of them. Tell them upfront, hey, if I'm going to be terribly failing, will it really bother you or will you really think bad about me? I'm 100% sure that person will not tell you anything about it. You are building your own pressure unnecessarily. Okay? And the third way is letting Go. Whatever happens, you need to let go. Remember guys, always nature will balance you. Whatever efforts you put, whatever work you put, whatever what you call the hard work you put, you will get reward and you will get paid off. Either not now, but definitely you will get paid off for whatever work you did. Even if somebody is pushing you out of the company for some reason, tomorrow you will be compensated. Maybe if you have done a genuine honest hard work, but still they are not recognized, you will get compensation of more than what you did. So do not worry about that. Keep these three things when you have a lot of stress, okay? Because people have this problem. Third thing, fear of judgment, right? I'll tell you how to remove this fear of judgment. That's why I specifically put this point. Because I wanted to address this very deeply. The three people whom I can say are the people who are most fear of judgment. They are completely rid of all this fear of judgment. People. Any guesses? Guys, think of in your mind who Jagdish will be telling these people doesn't have any kind of a fear of judgment. I'll tell you what, kids, small guys, small kids, when they play, you ask them any problem. They'll give you creativity answers hundred times better than you. You will have to refine that idea and take it forward. The thing is they don't care who tells what. That's the attitude what they had. That's why they are able to clearly tell very, very, very, very perfect creative answers. We will not be able to do it because already we have a lot of fear of judgment. What if somebody says if I tell this idea, people will say it's a crazy idea. It will not work. This that right? Second, you how come me here? I'll tell you. You are creative person when you take a bath. What happens when you take a bath? Normally in bath, nobody's watching you. In bath, nobody's going to hear you, what you're singing, what you're doing. So your. Your complete judgment is zero there. You know what? Many of the creative persons have accepted they got lot many creative ideas during their bath. Because when you leave that fear of judgment automatically a lot of ideas will keep on pouring. I've got personally a lot of ideas guys for my programs, for my courses, for teaching something, even something. Sometimes if that idea is bothering me for the full night, I just take a bath and it automatically flows. Because when you're out of dress and when you pour the water and when you think like nobody is watching you and do it automatically, you will be fear free and the third thing is when you program your mind using affirmations. Remember guys, this is very important. When you give lot of affirmations that I will be creative, I will form ideas, I will make this product comfortable, I will make this concept wonderful in the world. I will make sure this product solves a problem. You know what happens when you program yourself? You relieve all the fear of judgment and then you do it simple. Okay? So this is the third step, just to recap the tight deadlines and the pressure. Becoming perfectionism is a big problem. The second thing is becoming. Just manage your stress and become relaxed. Okay? And third is have relieved the fear of judgment. Now we'll go to the fourth. I'll find it. I'll do it. I told you, right? Writing the affirmations. It's a continuation of the third point. You'll have to write the affirmation. I am solution oriented. I am the person who does it. I am the person who really, really clear all these things. And I am making 100 concepts. You'll have to write down that. And when you do this, it will happen, right? See, this is continued with the earlier point. An earlier point was continued with the second one. So you need to understand each and everything flows when you do one thing properly. But you cannot apply all these things at a stretch. But there is a combination which you can apply based on the situation, what arise for you. Let's say timeline pressures. Let's say somebody is going to judge you or somebody is going to assess your presentation. You can use the fear of judgment steps to implement that. So feel free to use it for your requirement. The fifth most step is clear written goals. See guys, when you have lot of stress, when you have lot of fear, when you have lot of uncertainty and pressure, only when you don't have goals. 80% of the people in the world doesn't have goals at all. 20 percentage people have goals. But that's not in written clear, definite format. Only 3 percentage people have the goals. Let me tell you very simply. People who have people who don't have goals or work for the people who have goals. People who don't have goals work for the people who have goals. Simple. You take Facebook, you take Amazon, you take Apple, whatever, big, big CEOs, big big wealth creators and big big innovators and designers. They are the 1% people whom which 98 or 99 percentage people are even working for them, right? So write a goal clearly. Whatever happens, you'll feel normal. Write a goal to create 10 ideas in this next one hour. I'll create 25 ideas and I'll make sure this 25 ideas out of which 5 ideas are going to become world class. Program your mind to write it down. See, when you write it down, something else will happen. That's called mind storming. People don't use the pen and paper method. People, people really don't take it very seriously. So when you do mindstorming activity, like let's say you set a clear goal. You wanted to solve this problem. You wanted to solve this problem by providing 100 ideas in just two hours. Definitely you can reach 100. Your mind will automatically program and then it will give you exact 100 solutions. Surprise, surprise. The hundredth solution will be the best fitting solution for you. Many times I used to do with 20 ideas and 30 ideas, but I have not tried with hundred. You you can try with 20. That's a great way to start off with. Okay, and let me tell you guys, if somebody asks you quickly, hey, can you tell me exactly what are the five uses of the chair? Force yourself. Yes. In one minute I'll exactly find out five different ways of using a chair. Yes. Let me tell you guys, okay, I have not prepared this. I'm just what you call trying it in instant chair. Chair is used for sitting. Yeah, that's one use. Yes, chair. Chair could be used for what you call sitting in the floor and eating like a dining table. If you don't have dining table in your house. Yes, chair. Third way. Yeah, you can ulta the chair and you can hang around your clothes for drying. Yeah, that's a great idea. Fourth, you can break that chair and you can beat somebody. If some theft or some burglar or some robbery is coming. Yes, we can use it. Right. And the fifth way is you can play around. You can keep the chair in the center and people can round and round and round and play around. Right. See, in just 30 to 40 seconds, I'm able to come up with five different ways of using the chair. It's instantaneous and spontaneous. Okay, chair is in front of me. I just told you. So if you force your mind like that, you will definitely do it and you will feel wonderful. Guys, when you do this activity at the end, no, you'll feel lots of endorphins segregated in your body, which is like completion when you do some task. When you complete something, you feel wonderful, you feel amazing. And next one hour, you are the most happiest person and you deliver a lot of creative ideas. Okay, so this last golden tip I wanted to give you Guys, I've discussed with you five points. Okay? So not becoming perfection, Becoming calm and relaxed, managing stress, relieving the fear of judgment and making sure you write affirmations and tell that I will do it. And fifth is set a goal and mindstorm yourself to create that 1 hour 20 minutes idea. Something like that. And the sixth golden tip is be consistent and make it as a habit for 21 days. Even if you follow five things and you're not building a consistency, nothing happens. Okay? Yes guys, if you, if you arrive really wanted to change, you need to take action and take action now, not later. My mentor used to always say. Okay, so thank you so much guys. I hope you would have learned the five different techniques of how you can become creative and think in very crucial times. So thank you so much for staying tuning me, staying tuned in this podcast for Design for Change. So get notified for the further episodes. If you feel this has added a lot of value. Give me a five star rating in Spotify and Apple. Thank you so much. And if you wanted to have a conversation with me, if you need my coaching and mentoring or if you wanted to help others also, like let's say if you want your friend to get help, please feel free to send an email to me which I put in the description. I'll be happy to help you out, guys. Okay, thank you so much. Take care. Bye bye. Is waiting on me. I'm a.