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Biophase reverse engineered an Etsy listing he found.Hey everyone, I'm creating this thread out of a burning curiosity I've had in the last month with what appears to be a critical skill in business...
And I thought to myself, what better way than to ask some successful people like those on this forum and their experience with it?
The skill I'm talking about is abstract thinking. The art of taking something from two different areas and piecing them together to create something valuable.
The reason I'm bringing this up is that it's been VERY difficult to find anyone talking about abstract thinking in an entrepreneurial sense..
And I'm assuming - that a lot of the successful entrepreneurs on this forum - have had to use the art of abstraction in order to create amazing solutions for customers, and in marketing, or anything else.
If you're a little bit confused still, let me give you an example. I saw a post that @biophase made recently where he took a bunch of gummy bears and glued them to a canvas, which then increased the value to about $65 if I remember correctly.
We also do a lot of talk here about freelancing and copywriting, and things of that nature.. And a lot of people in that space end up being like everyone else and doing what everyone else is doing..
Does the answer to being different in those types of things and creating REAL entrepreneurial things lie in abstraction?
This thread may be a total flop, however, I'm INCREDIBLY interested in hearing some of your guys thoughts on this subject..
Thanks!
-Mike
His point was there was plenty of profit in it. And there are easy ways to make profit everywhere.
Someone could hypothetically just copy that and make money. (I personally hate copying other people's ideas, but that is more of a personal ethic than a best practice in business. In business, knockoffs and copycats make money all the time. In my view you should at least try to improve it somewhat. Skew the value like MJ says.)
So I don't think you NEED abstract thinking to be a successful entrepreneur.
That said, biophase's post did directly inspire me in an abstract manner. I'm currently exploring starting a company in a completely unrelated field, to what he showed, and his post helped inspire the direction I'm thinking. If I do get it off the ground, I will explain more later.