How do You Imagine Tomorrow?

It’s simple to come to terms with innovations when we’ve accepted them and integrated them into our lives, but these were once upon a time dreams that, back then, were little more than madness. It is the simplest things that provide so many possibilities. At some moment, someone imagined a machine that could wash clothes, you would put in powder on one side, and water in the other, and after a mechanical process, the clothes would be clean. An idea that, at one time, seemed ridiculous is now part of our daily lives.

When innovations are integrated into our lives, we take them for granted, as if they’ve always been there. But that’s not true; there was a dreamer once, bent on his or her dream coming true.

All these inventions were “dreams,” solutions to the needs of their day that have improved our quality of life. Do you really believe that everything has been invented? What are your needs? Which of those needs would you say has the greatest potential for innovation? Do you want a more comfortable life? What are you willing to do to get it? Do you dare to dream? What are you curious about? What are you obsessed about? What are your ambitions? What are your values? Do you want it, or do you need it? Does desire for what others have motivate or depress you? What are you willing to do to get it? What motivates you? What are your dreams? What do you lack? Are you willing to make your dreams come true? Or would you prefer to make others’ dreams come true? Do you always want to be a conformist?

You have to ask yourself those questions to know how capable you are of transforming your environment, of innovating on your possibilities.

Consider not only your own needs, but also the needs that you find in current society. What are the motivators and dreams being chased today? What matters the most in your social circle? What are your consumption habits? What are you missing?

I believe that anxiety and desire are two important factors for developing and realising dreams; that desire invites us to build, to think, to deconstruct preconceived notions in order to make them more interesting.

Despite the fact that current society tells us to stop dreaming, we are prone to adapt to the comfort and wellbeing that it offers, we fall into the trap that we have everything we desire. This is not true; we constantly imagine and wish for better things to fill the voids of what we lack. Woody Allen says, “Completely happy people are completely subnormal.” It’s an ironic way of thinking, but completely true. Apparent comfort is a false state of happiness; if we are completely satisfied we stop dreaming; lack engenders desire, the need to obtain something that completely satisfies us; it is what transforms, what captures the essence of evolution; needs should motivate us, not stop us.

That wanting it all, to have all the love, all the money, all the knowledge… let those be the motors that propel us to create, to innovate, to modify.

So, are you willing to innovate