Innovation is an expression frequently used in the business world meaning to look at a problem in a new way trying to find a different and creative solution to a situation unresponsive to “conventional thinking”
Our conscious mind tends to identify with conventional thinking and expectations which may not only be a source of considerable discomfort but also based on learned assumptions and beliefs…it can be a major event in a person’s life to “let go”of some of these deeper assumptions.
Out of exhaustion and futility the conscious mind may give up trying to follow problematic expectations and by doing so the door to the subconsccious will be free to open up…and this often reveals a new and much more appropriate solution to our difficulties…these creative experiences unfortunately can not be brought about intentionally but instead occurs spontaneously only when consciousness surrenders its attempt to solve the problem in its own way.
“All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.”~ H. G. Rickover
“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”~Walter Lippman
“Never innovate to compete, innovate to change the rules of the game. ~David O. Adeife
“Innovation is not absolutely necessary, but then neither is survival.”
~ Andrew Papageorge
“People who never make mistakes, never do anything.”~ Rev. Darrell W. Boswell
“We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”~ John W. Gardner
“Innovation = revolution not evolution”
~ Dawn Grover
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”~ Albert Einstein
“If you want to be more creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.”~ Jean Piaget
“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.”~ Picasso
“If you always think what you always thought, you’ll always get what you always got.”~Gerald Haman
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see everything as a nail.”
~ Abraham Maslow
“You will discover very little creativity in yourself without the discomfort of confusion, uncertainty, anxiety and ambiguity.”~ Jeff Mauzy
“You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.”
~Edward de Bono
“A problem is nothing more than an opportunity in work clothes.”~ Henry Kaiser
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