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Let Discipline and Patience Enable Innovation

Excuses amount to preemptive surrender

Matthew E. May
Thu, 04/18/2013 - 09:41
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Innovation is at or near the center of nearly everyone’s radar screen. If you’re not looking for it in your work, you’re looking for it in your personal life, because stirring in each of us is the desire to employ our ingenuity. Thus, the potential to innovate is alive and well in everyone.

Actually doing it with any acumen and consistency is another matter entirely.

A study of the great accomplishments in art, industry, and science reveals a story of constant study and hard work. Mozart, Galileo, Rockefeller, Renoir, Plato, Einstein, Shakespeare, Newton—all were innovative geniuses, and all believed in the constant and purposeful application of their abilities. Investigation into their magnificent achievements reveals a lifelong process of deep reflection, keen observation, and constant betterment. The ancient Greeks also believed that to become capable in any profession, three things were necessary—nature, study, and practice.

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Submitted by umberto mario tunesi on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 17:52

"inn-ovation"

Yes, that's it: we're all drunk with Innovation. Instead of pursuing a stable development, we push hard on the accelerator pedal of innovation - while queuing on a motorway or on a trunk-road. Why don't we try to innovate by not forcefully innovating? By letting the stream run its course? Thank you. 

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