Our Intepretation Towards the Art of Seeing to Develop New Thinking

New thinking with its most literal meaning means a new approach or reasoning, a new philosophy. When a person able to come across or develop some sort of new thinking it means that the person able to process a phenomenon around her or him with a relatively different perspective, than before he or she discover the new thinking itself. Because new thinking it is not just a result of a non trivial speculation. In order to find a sort of new thinking anybody should be able to feel an emotion they never express before, to undergo a new journey they never experience before, and to sense a certain opportunities they never felt before,. To develop a new thinking, one's should learn the art of seeing things, not just looking. When just by looking, a person might not be learn much because they only see the surface. But by seeing, a person able to merged themselves within the proposition. According to Henry David Thoreau the question is not what you look at but what you see, and when you see things differently, actually you will get a different impact.

As a company, Balakosa will always push our-self for being able to mastering the art of seeing in order to able to find a new approach, a new thinking to overcome problems that we want to solve and to innovate new solution. Our vision which is to become Indonesia’s superior facilitator to actualize Indonesia as an independent country in production, distribution, and creation of agricultural produce require the desire of a non stop learning process in able to feel, experience, and sense all the things that we never encounter before. Especially when it comes to analyze the existing problem in Indonesia's agricultural industry as well as to develop the solution, it is needed to examine the problems from many different angle. In our opinion, there are no better option to sharpen and mastering our seeing ability by listen to our stakeholders stories and opinion towards Balakosa itself. Because we might find (or will perhaps) find many different fresh opinion and ideas that will add value to our company programs and activities, and also as a company that aims to serve many parties. Which in essence, discover a new way of thinking inspired by Balakosa itself which enrich by many other people's point of view.

For the last 2 weeks, Balakosa has received several testimonials from different variety of people with various life background, interest, and standpoint. Balakosa are very grateful to received all feedback and gain new outlook because through all the feedback we able to sense, to feel, and experience a new journey; our consumer point of view to upgrade Balakosa performance as a server to its stakeholder. Here are our findings:

We feel an emotion where we mesmerized by people responses, that not just their response and testimonials are very detailed and very straight forward but how out of the box their suggestion are that some of their point are actually things that we never think of. We also feel that once consumer are given the proper opportunity to giving out recommendation and to criticize a company, its actually an opportunity that every company should provide, should be grateful for if they have the chance for that because consumer able to examine a situation with their subjectivity and it able to enrich the company knowledge of seeing problems and opportunities. Because consumer will have a different eye of seeing. Once we used to see something with many different angle we will flexible enough to find solution that is suitable to handle the problem with the proper methods needed, not only with the methods we want.

We experience a relatively interesting way of giving out testimonials within each consumer towards Balakosa. Some consumer will connect their suggestion based on their personal experiences, some consumer link their opinion based on their field of expertise, and they are confident with their suggestion because they feel they know what they are saying. They able to giving out detailed insight, instead of just pointing this is what they like, and this is what they don't like. Their preference are aligned with their opinion, which in the end of the day we believe that all given testimonials are a sincere opinion.

We sense and noticed that there are a specific pattern of giving out an opinion, suggestion, and criticism. All of the respectable customer who giving out their testimonials are actually not really dealing with Indonesia's agricultural industry problem in they everyday life but they able to giving out fresh ideas, different viewpoint, and criticism based on their knowledge. For example, one of our respectable consumer Mr Mahesa Sunt Servanda who is an expert in IT industry is never encounter or have to deal with any problems in Indonesia's agricultural industry. He also stated that he feel that his knowledge in agricultural industry is limited, but he able to give Balakosa insight on how to run BalakosUP Application properly based on the perspective of an IT expert in order to make people willing to use the application and enjoy the experience of buying the product from the application. The pattern is each of our consumer are giving out opinions and criticism cleverly based on their own personal standpoint to a certain aspect in Balakosa that they have interest into, or they are an expert in certain aspect.

But why our consumer are capable of doing that? because actually everyone is different, everyone have their own ways to deal with many things, and it cause everyone will have their own parts to adding power to their society social mechanism as themselves. Which Balakosa conclude, that everyone have their own parts and same opportunity to bring forward Indonesia's agricultural industry with their own special way. For example, for those who are graduated in agricultural major they able to discover a new varieties of plant that grow better and faster, meanwhile those who are graduated in communication major specifically from advertising able to craft a marketing strategy to market Indonesia's local produce in a more modern and revolutionize way, and for those who are not really willing to get involve actively is actually able to being active; to have a role as a front row of people who consume and also proud to consume Indonesia's local agricultulal produce.

We able to discover a sort of new formulation of thinking, our very own interpretation of developing a new thinking by examine our consumer testimonials; because we are not just see our consumer opinion as an opinion, but we sees it as

A NEW SENSE OF

CONSCIOUSNESS

Everyone are able to bring forward Indonesia's agricultural industry with their own special way, and the option are limitless. We all owe to our nation's green warrior, all respectable our very own local farmer all around Indonesian to provide use nutritious food. It is our time to giving back to our nation's green warrior and also the industry with our own way. Why the possibility are limitless? the excavation of opportunities ahead within Indonesia's agricultural industry are just begin, the percentage of "what we can do" and being creative in its bigger in any other industry available. In the most extreme way, if we are reluctant to contribute, or we don't feel any advantages for our-self to contribute in this specific industry, let's question our-self: if there are no longer local farmers for us to be taking care of, if there are no longer local produce we able to fight for, if in the market all the local produce is gone and nowhere to be found, if all the prices of everyday ingredients such as rice-veggies-fruits are sky rocketing because only imported produce left stored in market who will being regretful in the end of the day?

Use your very own skill and expertise to bring forward Indonesia's agricultural industry, Many people not just in terms of contributing to develop Indonesia's agricultural industry, in many other industry are many times reluctant to contribute even though they have the desire to do it because they feel they are not really link to the situation or within the industry, and usually they will come up with the opinion of "why do i have to give my opinion or suggestion? I'm just nobody". Do not feel that your contribution are not needed because you feel you are not skilled enough. because you might have a different role with other people, and your contribution able to enrich the whole progress. The more the merrier right?

Because every contribution counts. There are no such thing as small deeds when it comes to bring forward our nation's hidden gem. Contribution is not always as massive as build a startup company, contribution is any action that will helping to achieve a certain goals. Because when you think buying local product is only a small deeds, your small deeds are able to feed a family and send kids to go to school, to earn education. Is it a small deeds? yes there are bigger deeds than that, but imagine. Your "small deeds" are already able to make an impact, imagine the possibilities when you expand your contribution into a bigger wider scope more than just consume local produce.

Its not "when will we get the result" but "when we take the first step in order to get the result". Disease of any kind of disease when it comes to reach a vision is impatience, and fear of failing will intoxicate the whole journey. For some cases, people are misuses the term "go big or go home" as an excuse for not doing anything at all. But why we still hesitate to take a further step in order to upgrade Indonesia's local agricultural industry, and we are more comfortable to just than get stuck within the old, same condition? In terms of bring forward Indonesia's local agricultural industry we indeed still will going through such a long, long way to achieve. But,it is better to take only one step, or maybe a half step, rather than not at all right?

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