I need two volunteers please, I am not going to poke into your IQs. It will be a no brainer.
It is time to be bold now. So come on.
A very simple activity for fun.
I want you to repeat the word INNOVATION as many as 10 times.
Sure that must have been murderous for the word itself.
To kill the spirit of innovation simply by mindlessly repeating it.
So let’s salvage the situation, shall we
Now, our volunteers, please if you can give 5 different modulations of the same word- INNOVATION. You can work with my prompts.
Prompt 1: Give ‘innovation’ in your morning voice, the first word as you awake
Prompt 2: Give ‘innovation’ as you would say it to a baby
Prompt 3: Give ‘innovation’ say it like you caught a cold
Prompt 4: Give ‘innovation’ as you would say in your mother tongue
Prompt 5: Give ‘innovation’ say it by adding the first letter of your name to it
I hope that spirits are revived for INNOVATION. I assume you would have figured out the theme of my talk today by now. Yes, it is Innovation!
In our brief activity before, we saw just how instantaneously our brains can correspond with a task calling for innovation. This is probably because our genetic make-up is fed with so much motive to innovate that we will do it even without being asked to.
That’s how evolution came about, based on the paradigm that evolution and innovation go hand in hand.
Also if you noted, we had to have 2 volunteers side by side to show that when two original thinkers happen upon a thought of innovation that matches, it need not necessarily be plagiarism. It is perhaps the coincidence of god-willing innovativeness plaid onto our DNA.
Or at least that was the argument brought up by the author of this book titled A Biography of Innovations which is the sincere inspiration behind my talk.
The baseline of this talk is that ‘Innovation seeks us, each of us, all of us.’ It runs in our veins as it had in our predecessors’. Since they had begun to walk on two feet instead of on all fours. This is historic because the transition led to a scientific revelation titled ‘obstetric dilemma.’
Plainly speaking, the discovery supposes that it took humankind to stand up to be able to reach the state of sound brain function that will become the preface to human civilization. Things picked up quickly thereafter that put us on a speedy journey to this day.
Though, all else cannot be overlooked so quickly. Each and every piece of innovation, successful and otherwise, altogether, has put us on our time here. I want to simply remark that ‘Innovation and us are interchangeably complimentary.’
Firstly let me begin by calling out my top three favorite invention/innovation:
- Polaroid Camera- for the empathy shown by a father to his daughter that also resulted in an ingenious creation.
- Ball Pen- for its classic simplification of a common man’s problem.
- Scissors- for the astounding genius of Leonardo Da Vinci
I can sense here a heated question of why don’t I obviously favor the invention of the iphone. I do, in some small way. I can chime in on other people’s craze for it but not go wholly crazy after it myself. Here is why,
Imagine the story of a girl who believed in a special power. She was ripe with curiosity and ever observant. Then life happened to her in a difficult way and left her devoid of any chance at success. Though, in the end, all it took her to figure out life was coming into an idea of invention. She went from a nameless, clueless figure to a matriarch. This is the story of Joy Mangano, a serial inventor from the states who founded the magic mop and her story brilliantly portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence in the movie Joy.
The story has had a grip on me ever since. You shall better stop by other inventions too. Find a lot of them in the book. From the air conditioner and xerox machine to birth control pills and fairness cream. Every one of these inventions brings to the table a standard dose of inspiration.
If you aren’t already vying to become an innovator then I have a second book that might help.
SMALL WONDER is the story of how the smallest automobile of India, Nano, became a national sensation after having been the brainchild of a single man.
I was personally moved from reading on through their journey.Their story is one of grit, perseverance, one mindedness and forethought (a lot of it). Their path to eventual success can be described as one of unlimited hurdles. Nevertheless they landed a phenomenal victory as they should for all the setbacks they had to take on in bringing solution to a societal problem.
I say this because if you cannot become an innovator then join an innovation movement. Most of us are still pondering on our purpose in life, but if you subscribe to today’s thought that innovativeness is a persistent human nature. Then we shall find the way to our purposes sooner, I believe.
Take our case here at CONTUS. We are united for the cause of technology better serving people. Thereby our paths are forged in purpose and we share a brotherhood in furtherance of the cause. That in itself justifies a significance to me.
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