Business Storytelling: What's Your 200 Year Plan?

Raghava KK:  What's your 200 year plan?


Being that I never heard of Raghava KK before today I can honestly say this speaker has never inspired me before.  What I can say is, after hearing him speak today, his idea about a 200-year plan has peeked my interest and sort of falls in line with a concept I already am putting into practice.  So what does a 200 year old plan do, you may ask.  Well in my opinion it help guide our ideas, and thoughts.  It focuses what we deem as priorities and pushes it far beyond our actions into our future descendants realities.  As an artist, my goal is to create a thing and have it to transcend a time, an era.  


With this type thinking there will come consequences.  In our ability to create art in its many facets we can unintentionally pass on legacy we have not even thought about.  As an artist, Raghava KK shows his works, which are steeping with innovation, imagination, and wild wonder.  If I could create in my own way something beyond our own imagination then channel a unique skill down the line through my generations to come then that would be the basis of my plan.


Maybe this idea is a bit wondrous for some, for life itself has many of us on different levels and planning ahead 200 years is not realistic when planning the next 2 minutes is challenging for some.  If this were the case then I'd challenge the reader to create a 20-day plan instead.  I believe Ragahava KK when, sharing his plan with us was more concerned with the process of the journey then the hard outcome.  As a military officer, I always focus on the "how"and in hearing Rahahava KK out I did not catch much of the how to develop a 200 year plan, although I can sense the why.



In creating art now, how will it affect not just mines, but all generations to come?  If I plan to prioritize, organize, and action my art will I have set in motion say, 200 years from now my thoughts and concepts.  Basically, when I post comments or blogs on Face book or whatever social media pricks my fancy for the moment will what I say today be of value later on? Looking further downstream will what I do now impact my kids, kids, kids? I'm sure it will to some degree, but how much? And how much can I effect that change?  Most important will these tools we use today allow us to do so even if their obsolete tomorrow? 


After creating our art what will be the technology that helps to download and later access that data? Is digital content a transient medium and if so how will our history, our art be recorded? In my opinion only really important and meaningful events will survive, but ordinary ideas will get lost.  This is motivation for me to constantly perfect my art, my story so man will want to archive my creations.

In closing, I think the most important thing to be gained from what Ragahava KK has said is...having a 200 year old plan, if done right and with a bit of luck, will go along way of insuring your creations will be in contact with people 200 years after your time.