Where I think unhindered,
Ideas are the psychological pushing out of boundaries – boundaries that nature does not impose, but we set on ourselves. These ideas, perhaps, are like what gravity was, before Newton gave it a name – something all felt, obliged, respected and lived with; but did not know of its existence. Once man learnt of its existence by giving it a name, he also devised ways and means of surmounting it – we built aircraft and spaceships.
A lot of our ideas are such – we know they are around us, and we feel, experience and sense them, but we don’t know what sense to make of them.
Such is how we chose to define the perimeters of what we call THE FOURTH QUADRANT.
It is the space where we go through a process of isolating what we feel and don’t know, or discovering what we don’t know, and giving it a name.
Only when we dare to venture beyond our known boundaries, we enter THE FOURTH QUADRANT, where knowledge is abundant; ideas, discussions and collaborations spark like livewires and consequences are unknown.
Most of what we call ideas promise high returns with disproportionately high risk. Post implementation of such ideas, one could not know whether she/he would make a dent towards his path to progress or repent his act of ideation. The uncertainty, which is so inherent and embedded in the journey through this Fourth Quadrant is what we explore this year.
2011, NEEV dwells, breeds and thrives in The Fourth Quadrant.
where I act unshackled
Ideas are the psychological pushing out of boundaries – boundaries that nature does not impose, but we set on ourselves. These ideas, perhaps, are like what gravity was, before Newton gave it a name – something all felt, obliged, respected and lived with; but did not know of its existence. Once man learnt of its existence by giving it a name, he also devised ways and means of surmounting it – we built aircraft and spaceships.
A lot of our ideas are such – we know they are around us, and we feel, experience and sense them, but we don’t know what sense to make of them.
Such is how we chose to define the perimeters of what we call THE FOURTH QUADRANT.
It is the space where we go through a process of isolating what we feel and don’t know, or discovering what we don’t know, and giving it a name.
Only when we dare to venture beyond our known boundaries, we enter THE FOURTH QUADRANT, where knowledge is abundant; ideas, discussions and collaborations spark like livewires and consequences are unknown.
Most of what we call ideas promise high returns with disproportionately high risk. Post implementation of such ideas, one could not know whether she/he would make a dent towards his path to progress or repent his act of ideation. The uncertainty, which is so inherent and embedded in the journey through this Fourth Quadrant is what we explore this year.
2011, NEEV dwells, breeds and thrives in The Fourth Quadrant.
The uncertainty that prevails in everybody's life is not inexplicable. It feels so because of the shackles of our mind. The boundaries in ourselves rather than what nature imposes. Nature never stops you from doing anything but its we who use the word "impossible" too often. An easy solution to let things be the way they are and never to challenge the convention. The FOURTH QUADRANT to me is the mix between the negative and positive elements in the Cartesian plane. An area of uncertainty and neutrality. Where the journey is important than the solution! the spark that ignites our minds to do beyond the conventional and prove to the world why we are different.
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