The Probate Pro believes that to be the leader in the field of probate, it is necessary to re-examine the way we approach every probate problem.
Often, when I ask someone why something is done a certain way, the response I receive is disheartening. “It has always been done that way,” I am told. Why do we continue to do things a certain way just because it as done that way in the past? Why do we create this artificial limitation on creativity. Shouldn’t we always be asking “can it be done better?”
At every management meeting, I challenge my team to deconstruct every process. Are we being innovative? Is there a better way? Are we improving? Are we growing? No process is sacred. Nothing is off the table.
I have always been fascinated by the concept of “thinking out of the box.” Innovator, Jay Silver takes this concept to the extreme seeing endless possibilities in everything he touches. Again,no process is sacred. There is no artificial limitation on creativity.
Jay Silver is the co-founder of Makey, Makey, an invention kit that hoped to raise $25,000 on Kickstarter. It ended up raising $568,106. “We believe that everyone can create the future and change the world. We believe that the whole world is a construction kit, if we choose to see it that way.”
“When I was seven, I taped a fork to a drill. … It had a profound effect on me. It sounds silly, but I thought, ‘Okay, the way the world works can be changed.” Not afraid of tossing preconceived notions of limitations aside he asks “why can’t two slices of pizza be used as a slide clicker” for a computer? Or, can I “make music with ketchup?” In an entertaining TED Talk, he proclaims, “Hack a banana, make a keyboard!”
The Probate Pro is inspired by those that are agents of change and growth. The next time someone tells you it has been done that way forever, let your mind dream. Don’t be afraid to ask yourself if you too can make music with ketchup.