Mar 1, 2009
How to innovate: Do nothing extraordinary, because that’s what everyone else is doing.
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“Innovation” is so hip—even ordinary—nowadays that to be really innovative we may need to just stop trying new things altogether.
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I’m on it.
We should do something extraordinary not because we want others to think it is but because we think it is. If others think it is too, well thats just a bonus.
YES! Now I can add innovative to my list of “words that describe me”.
I like this concept.
It reminds me of the issue of baby-naming…we’re to the point now where giving your child a “trendy” name is actually LESS trendy than giving them a traditional one.
I have thought about this some myself…
Want to do something radical? Stay faithful to your wife.
Want to do something that no one else is doing? Pray and read the BIble.
Want to be some kind of crazy innovater? Do not go in debt.
There are all kinds of ways to be radical in todays world.
I’ve been doing this for years… :)
Cliché look trendy but copy formulas. Innovative is maximizing resources and ideas. Traditions are activity minus meaning. Classics are value-full but oft confused.
Until doing nothing becomes the new doing something extraordinary.
Lowell Stoltfus…what you said!
Everyday living with common sense discipline and peace has a certain sparkle in our degraded culture!
Now will that lead to puritanical legalism as “everybody tries to do it” without solid foundations??! :)
Or come up with a new word for it.
“Innovation” is so over-used that I avoid it at all costs.