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Somebody said : “If You Want Something You Never Had You Have to do Something You Have Never Done”.

This phrase sounds weird to me, let’s take Roger Federer, by example. When he wins his first tournament, he was doing what he always does, playing tenis.

The same for Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Emanuel Ginobili, etc, etc. The point is, that, to achieve something you never had, maybe you must practice a lot.

The problem is the way you learn. Lets imagine you are trying to be a great basketball player. You shot to the ring, the ball hits on the left and goes out. Then you realize that you must shoot a little to the right. You try again, and fail. Because tha ball goes to much to the right. You shoot again and SUCCEED!.

Ok, whats the important here? You can adjust your shoot because you have inmediate feedback! Yes, so you can learn, because the way you shoot, the way you move your arm, your hand, your fingers, the muscles of your fingers is still fresh in your mind and you can correct it in order to achieve your goal.

Lets supose that you practice in a low gravity environment, and you have a glass wall that is much higher than the ring, between you and the ring. Now, you must shoot in a way that the ball fly over the wall before reach the ring. Now, the ball thakes too much to reach the ring and the feedback takes longer. Let’s say, over a minute.

Now, learn is harder, because the position of the your arm, your hand, fingers, muscles of your fingers and all the subtle things that you not aware of, are missing.

In the bigger companies, I witness that there is a burocratic structure to deal with projects. The problem is that when the project involves certain degree of innovation, the burocratic structure does what the glass wall to the basketball shooter: Ruins the learning. Then, the people involved in the project can’t learn, become frustrated and the product turns in a flat copy of something.

The solution can be implement a burocracy free environment for the learing for certain projects of the company, thats will lead to fresh, innovative products and a happier people.

Regards!