My friend Bryan is a psychology professor, he told me recently that eye witness testimony is notoriously unreliable. Aparently the more adamant someone is about remembering a specific piece of information, the less reliable they are as witnesses. Ironically enough it's the person who has vague recollections and impressions about an incident or event that are more reliable and typically the ones who's testimony was traditionally ignored in courts of law.
I started this business on a hunch; on a vague impression, an idea of sorts, not on detailed comprehensive market research, I havent even the whiff of a business plan and to be honest dont have time to do one. I have a general feeling about where its going, an inclination about how I 'll get there (which I only arrived at after an argument with Herself) and a lot of anecdotal evidence for why it should work.
Bryan also says that science is not about a noble open search for truth, infact its actually a bunch of people looking for proof of what they reckon they already know. The great thing about this is that I dont really know where it will go and to be honest I don't think anyone who starts a business really does, we have an idea and we look for proof that we're already right. I've said this before and I'll say it again, I'm a skeptic about any book or author that tries to account for their success with a recepie. The uncertainty is wonderful, who knows whether these anecdotal evidence and impressions will actually amount to anything, but isnt that the beauty of it, who knows what will happen.
If it works, I hope I'm man enough to admit that I didnt have a master plan, that I didn't have the midas touch. I stumbled. but I stumbled forward.
His thrust is that
I lasted three years in what i lovingly called Behemoth Corp, and dallied daily with my sanity 'till I eventually escaped to a Public Sector retreat I call Neverland and slept there for 18 months, but in sleeping come dreams, colorful, creative, exciting dreams and so here we go again.