Find a problem to solve – #2

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-sharafi al-anbiya wa al-mursaleen. Muhammadun Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi sallam, tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Qumma baadu. My brothers and sisters, this is the second part of the Solve a Problem series. And that is, as I said, the secret of success is find a problem, solve it, scale your solution and monetize it if you want to. Now, for this, you need two critical essential things. One is curiosity and two is creativity. How do you get that? Practice this principle. Ask, how does it work? Then ask, how can I make it better? How does it work and how can I make it better? Now, this applies to everything in life. It is not only something that applies to mechanical processes. It's something that applies to human relations, for example. How's my marriage? How is it working? How can I make it better? My employment? How is it working? How can I make it better? Everything. You can apply it across the world. Right? Curiosity is, how does it work? Creativity is, how can I make it better? I always say this to myself and to all of you. Work for love, money will follow. Because only when you work for love, only when you work for the love of the thing you are doing, can you produce superb quality. And when you produce superb quality, you can charge a premium. Money will follow. But only if you have superb quality. Now, many times, people fail because they get discouraged. And that happens because they are concerned about what people will say. And I say to you, forget people. First of all, people won't say anything for the simple reason that people have their own stuff to do. They're not living their life wondering about you and commenting on what you're doing. And even if they're doing, forget them. They're not important. Forget. Forget people. Their opinion doesn't count. Don't seek approval from outside. Do the thing because you love it. And keep doing it. How many times? Until you succeed. Until you succeed. You don't count the number of attempts, except at the end after you have succeeded. You don't say, this is my 50th attempt. You don't say, this is my 10th attempt. No. You don't count the attempts until the end. After you have succeeded. So how long must I work until I succeed? Give you two examples. Thomas Edison, the great inventor who invented the incandescent bulb. His teachers said that he was too stupid to learn anything. This is what school does for you. His teacher said that he was too stupid to learn anything. And he was fired from his first two jobs for being nonproductive. When Edison was working on inventing the light bulb, they say that he made 10,000 unsuccessful attempts. Think about that. How long does that take? Right? 10,000 unsuccessful attempts. Now, when they asked him how he kept going after failing so many times, he said, I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Now, see that attitude. That is the secret. The secret of success. The attitude of saying, I am not going to feel sad, glad, bad, mad because of what people are saying. I am doing this stuff and I will do it until I succeed. So they said, you, how did you keep going after failing so many times? He said, no, I've not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Now, you can have that attitude only if you don't look for approval from people. And work for the love. Of what you do. There's no other way. If you are looking for approval from people, no way that you will succeed. There's a wonderful story about Thomas Edison. And the story is that he had his lab, uh, in a sort of granny cottage, um, outside his outside his house in his garden. And in that lab, he had all his experiments. All his documents. All his documents. All his documentation. His writing, his books, everything. And one night that cottage somehow caught fire. So now think about this. Here is a wooden building. It's full of paper. So what do you think happens? When it catches fire, you have the perfect fire. Got a huge fire happening. Edison's son says, I went looking for my dad because I thought to myself, you know, this, this is, it's a life's work and it's going. I'm going to commit suicide when I die. I'm going to commit suicide when I die. I'm going to commit suicide when I die. so he went looking for him he said I found him standing looking at the fire his hands behind his back just looking at the fire so he said to him the son came and said dad are you ok he said yeah absolutely he said go call your mom tell her she is never going to see a fire like this in her life her son is completely puzzled he said what here is the thing where your whole life's work is effectively gone down the drain and you are saying call your mom to see this wonderful fire he said yeah he said tell me how many people do you know who have the opportunity of having all their mistakes wiped off at once and they have a clean slate think about that he said how many people do you know who have the opportunity to have all their mistakes wiped off and they have a clean slate think about his attitude what does that tell you about the resilience of such a person you can never put them down and that was the case with Edison Edison is the founder of General Electric one of the most successful global businesses in the world now this is the point of of curiosity many times young people come to me and say I want to start a business I say go ahead start say oh but I don't know what business I say ok that's you know good point to start you don't know what business so you first have to know what business very simple find a problem solve it scale the solution monetize it that is the secret of business so you want to know what business to start don't worry about the saying oh what is your passion what's in your heart forget all that you want to know what business to start right forget all that just go around go among your neighbors go among your colleagues go among your family just walk down the street look at people in the world and ask yourself what do people need right what do people need and based on that just go do it find give them what they need what is the problem and go and solve it solve that problem right it's as simple as that go and solve the problem everyone in the world has some problem if you can solve it you got a business it's as simple as that right find a problem fix it solve it scale the solution monetize it so let me leave you with that go out there and change the world and may Allah bless the noble Prophet and his family and companions with the mercy of Allah and the mercy of Allah