The Serial Innovator

Inside The Mind Of A Serial Innovator

A deep sense of curiosity and a keen sense of observation give everything a fresh perspective, however, it is that playful mischief that innovates the re-definition.

Innovation should be in our every thought, word and deed. From the simplest act of using your space to mathematical insight of a higher space.

If everyone gathers to work innovatively on everyone’s problems with compassion and passion non-exclusively, won’t the sum of the efforts and joy harvest-able surpass the struggle of its parts? — Mi’kail, 2011-07.23

1. Stay away from norms or being normal as if it is a plague.
When most people and organizations are trying to incubate innovation, we are really incarnating minds within status quo. Innovations cannot be created within the same consciousness that caged them out.

How can we have innovation when we are not determined, sincere and honest about discoveries? People are keeping to their own cluster of people, ossifiedly adamant sticking to their pride, prejudice and preference of their own race, religion, nationality, language, caste, traditions. Such bigotry starves out any chance or survivability of pure curiosity, not to say liberalism and high tolerance for eccentricity. What is left may be a inferior form of constipated innovation.

2. Spend more time debating with yourself rather than arguing with people.
Never let ego become your distractor, possibility blinding agent and time draining.

Excuse me while I have to tend to an disagreement with ‘some of myselves’.

3. Treat your bias like diseases.
Pride, prejudice and parochial preference puts your mind’s eye on a narrow-band. This is a deadly, crippling curse to innovation.

Innovation is a byproduct of cognition. We need to tend to that first. How can we be innovative, when we can’t even understand a good featured product from just an expensive branded hype, when we are ignorantly liking movies or songs from gaudy, brainless copied scripts with zero sense of originality, when we like dumb rap with repetitive, brain-numbing chants, when we just do slight shifts in design rather than a quantum leap, and we use weak jargons like ‘quantum’ not knowing that it means ‘minimum degree of any physical entity’, when we can’t tell real values from cheap ones, and…