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The revolutions of last two centuries have become radical that they have changed the fundamental characteristics of social order. Over the last two centuries, the pace of change became so quick that the social order acquired the dynamic nature. When we speak of modern revolution, what comes in our mind is the French Revolution (1789), the Liberal Revolution (1848) or the Russian Revolution (1917).

But today, every year is revolutionary. For instances, personal computers in 1970s, the internet bubble of 1990s, the current revolution of black communities in United States, the launch of two astronauts in orbit by SpaceX and all the other historical revolutions that has been taking place. But most of us don't realize it. So we try to define the characteristics of modern society based on what we see externally, which is just like trying to define the color of chameleon.

The main credit to this revolution goes to the capacity of human beings to imagine. We are the only species in the entire globe to be able to create an imagined communities. Yuval Noah Hararri said it beautifully," The two most important examples for the rise of such imagined communities are the nation and the consumer tribe. The nation is the imagined community of the state and the consumer tribe is the imagined community of the market." Both are imagined communities because it's impossible to know all the customers of the market or to know all the people form the entire nation.

This imagined communities make us believe that we all have a common past, share common interest, common purpose and have a common future. This isn't a lie; it's an imagination. They exist only in our collective imagination and their power is immense. As long as millions of Americans believe in the existence of America, get excited at the sight of American national symbols, believe in American dream and myths, and are willing to sacrifice time, energy and money for the great America, America will remain one of the strongest powers in the world. This collective imagination has led us to many great revolution in recent days.

The main purpose of Homo sapiens (modern human) is to serve in evolution. Every single individual whether big or small, physically strong or weak, sustainable or unsustainable; their main purpose is to evolve. If it is weak then their goal is to evolve stronger and if stronger, their goal is to evolve more stronger.

Biologically speaking, evolution is not based on similarities; it is based on differences. If all humans are same, then we are not serving towards evolution. Thus we are aware that is not happening. This follows that every human are different and that is why we are evolving.

The theory of evolution is based on the idea that all the species are related and gradually change over time. Lamarckism and Darwinism all explains that this what drives the evolution.

It is shortening the distance between us and ourselves. It’s making connection between our promises and our action.

It’s coordinating our dreams and what we do everyday. This is of course the toughest game we all play everyday but it is important and it's worth playing.

Life is not only about doing the thing that makes us successful. It is more than that…

It’s about following our true passion and doing the things that makes us happy. It’s about finding our true purpose and evolving from it. It is about making things happen by doing the thing we love and enjoying every struggle and adversity.

The truth is when we follow our passion, things start to change. Every failure becomes lesson. Every struggle becomes manure for growth. It makes us not give up. So it is the passion and the hunger that drives us forward.

According to Zipf's law, " The probability of occurrence of words or other items starts high and tapers off." Thus, a few occur very often while many others occur rarely. Ir was George Kingsley Zipf  who discovered this law.

He discovered that the most popular word in the English language (“the”) is used ten times more than the tenth most popular word, 100 times more than the 100th most popular word and 1,000 times more than the 1,000th most popular word.

It has been discovered this effect applies to market share for most of the big and small corporations. It has been clear that being #1 is a lot better than being #5 or #10.

Everybody wants to do more. We want more result, more success and more outcomes. But we don’t care about the inputs, constraints and the variables.

Doing more with less means completing our work with the minimum possible constraints and variables. It makes us do the work right away without waiting for the best possible reason or time.

Doing more with less is important because it’s worth it.

Everybody has got the problem. We care about our problem; we think about it. The problem is not the problem, it is the perspective about the problem.

Bigger problems means smaller us. We have to grow ourselves to make our problem smaller and to demolish it.

We have to learn to surpass our problem. We are bigger than our problem.

It is the creation that follows the emotions. The perfection in form is required to intrigue human mind and soul. But it’s not only the visible part, mostly it is the invisible one.

A great carpenter isn’t going to use bad woods for the back of the cabinet, even though nobody is going to see it.

So targeting the perfection is how we advance ourselves and the future generation. And it means caring about the craftsmanship even of the parts unseen.

What we do everyday becomes a habit and we are the reflection of what we do everyday.
The way we talk to others or to ourselves reveals our character. The way we deal with different situations shows our strength and weakness. Every step we take is the reflection of our character, our mindset, our loopholes, our worth and ourselves as a whole.

So before taking any action we got to realize and ask ourselves what does this mean to me?, is it really that important?, why is this happening?, what is the best approach to deal this situation?

Because..

we are the reflection of what we do

1. Fred Wilson, Co-Founder of Union Square Venture:

"Being different matters. But you have to be different in a ways that users will feel right way."

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Ginni Rometti, Chairman, President, CEO of IBM:

"The only way to survive is to continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you a innovative company"

3. Jason Fried, Founder and CEO of Basecamp:

"There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with small team."

4. Jessica Alba, Co-founder, The Honest Company:

"The only way you can measure your success is by reflecting and seeing what you want out of the experience. And the journey is just as much a part of success you seek out."

5. Leopat Magnus, Creative Director, Infinit:

"If you have doubts, try. If you have certainties, doubts."

6. Margaret Gould-Stewart, Director of Product Design, Facebook:

"You need to build a culture that cares about quality."

7. Max Levchin, CEO, Affirm:

"Being a start-up CEO feels a lot like a pinball machine. On good days, you move the flaps to keep the ball up. On bad days, you are the ball. "

8. Peter Awad, Founder, Slow Hustle Podcast:

"You have to zig when they zag."

9. Peter Shankman, Founder, HARO:

"You can't make anything viral, but you can make something good."

10. Peter Theil, Co-Founder Palantir:

"Founders should have a history before they start a company - otherwise, they are just rolling a dice. "

11. Renne James, President, Intel:

"In my experience, in this industry, the things that have been breakthrough have all been about connecting human beings to each other, communicating with each other. "

12. Timothy Hwang, Co-Founder, Fiscal Note:

"People really need to start engaging in order for our country to be a better place."