This is my first mission.
--Your first objective: Find out what it REALLY means to be a social innovator.Study Exhibit A. There are 33 secrets of social innovation in this doc**ent.Pick your favorite secret, and share it in a blog post and tag it LEARN1.--
from Paul Polak via:
"5. think like a child – children have no limit to their thinking"
This is an underdeveloped thought among even the best of people. Oftentimes one's thinking is constrained to thinking within a given ruleset. For example, if one is providing for their own survival, then they must work within their budget to maintain their lifestyle. This sort of thinking is necessary to survival. However, if one is unhappy with a given situation, it is useful to realize that situation is not unchangeable. Nor is it only changeable through conventional methods. In the above example, one not only has the option to change their budget, but also their considerations regarding their lifestyle. The mistake lies in constraining the imagination to within conventional, or previously-accepted limits.
To think without limits alone is not enough, however. Because reality often does have limits, one must be able to consider those limits and work to either change, expand, or render those limits moot.
How does one cultivate this sort of thinking? One must become aware of the problem at hand, its history and what maintains its status as a problem. Then one must be aware of any possible ideal situations that one wishes to bring about. And lastly, one must be willing to implement whatever means necessary to bring about the ideal without regard to criticism.
I believe that it is these three key ideas that allow one to begin to innovate.
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