World Innovations

  Every year, at the very end of the year, during the last days of December, I try to find a sort of motto that I should live by for the coming 356 days. Often, the motto is not even written by me; it may be a famous sentence, quote, or verse of a song that inspired me at that particular moment of the year. I do not have a real archive of this yearly routine, so over the years, I have forgotten almost all my mottos, except one — a very classic motivational one but not that mainstream — “expect the unexpected.” I do believe that it is such a smart sentence that I am really into it every year, not only on the designated one. I think that there are several ways of reading and interpreting these three words together. If you are a very forward-thinking person, you might think that the unexpected is something concrete, maybe connected to your career. Expect what you think you cannot reach and you will arrive at the top of that mountain. It could be about exceeding one’s ca...