Opportunity: The Infinity of Doors

“Opportunity results from the identification and resolution of inefficiencies”

Opportunity is the ever-present product of inefficiency. In an efficient universe, all value is fully realized, and the potential for profit is calibrated and limited. It is only in an inefficient universe that transformative profit can be realized.

Inefficiency is most evident in chaos, or where artificial and arbitrary restrictions are imposed. Urgency, prejudice and bias, hierarchal limitations, barriers to resources and mortality compound inefficiencies, increasing opportunities and their power to transform.

Transformative profits fall to the prepared, the intuitive, the unhesitant and the aware.

The exploitation of opportunity demands readiness. Readiness is enhanced through the constructive application of investigation, analysis and experience. Readiness is never random, always the product of a specific effort and choice.

Solving inefficiencies require creativity and knowledge. Creativity is the avoidance of limitations and assumption. Knowledge is the embrace of logical progression and origin stories and is augmented by the application of critical resources.

Delay in approach and action most often prevents ownership and control of an opportunity. Hesitation is a product of self-doubt and lack of focus; forward movement is the essential component of progress.

Awareness demands the prioritization and feeding of intellectual curiosity. Curiosity is the natural byproduct of a life spent valuing of windows over mirrors, and open doors over protective walls.

Opportunity is a door. Passing through the door requires first recognizing that it is a door, choosing to pass through it, then taking deliberate steps forward. It demands that you carry with you every resource and skill accumulated in your past, and the brandishing of an indefatigable, courageous self belief. Those who walk through the door with strength, humility (an awareness of and appreciation for the magnitude of the moment) and conviction are those who change the world, and who in turn are graced with the rarified vision of the infinity of doors.