One thing that all innovators\nhave in common is a drive to create something new that will change the way\nthings are today. Whether they set out to become innovators or just to solve a\nproblem, these people have the vision to see a world that is a little different\nfrom the one in which they currently live. Often, this drive expresses itself\nin a desire to read as much as they can about innovation and the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Innovators also put in hours\nof daily practice to become the best they can be in their field, whether they\nare business leaders improving their communication skills, writers practicing\nquality article writing to improve their craft, musicians performing gigs in\ntheir local venues, or inventors spending hours at the drawing board. If you\nwant to be an innovator, keep putting the time into honing your skills, and\ncheck out the following books:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First published in 2006, this\nbook is significant for the way it changed the focus on innate qualities to a focus\non effort and growth. Time and time again, Stanford psychology researcher Dweck\ndemonstrates that natural ability will only take one so far, and a growth\nmindset is what will carry someone to levels yet unreached. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As any innovator knows,\nintelligence is not the only prerequisite to achievement. We\u2019ve all met highly\nintelligent people who were recognized as gifted in grade school, only to\nfalter in college and completely flounder in professional life. These people\ndidn\u2019t suffer because they weren\u2019t intelligent after all, argues Dweck, but\nbecause they didn\u2019t learn growth and effort when their less gifted peers did.\nThis resilience, she posits, is what allows someone of initially average\nability to surpass someone with great potential who doesn\u2019t have the habits of\nhard work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In order to successfully\ninnovate, one must endure many setbacks. Someone who takes these as a sign that\nit\u2019s not meant to be, perhaps that they are not capable of accomplishing what\nthey desire because of their own limitations, will give up in the face of these\nchallenges. But someone who is perhaps less talented but more persistent can\nkeep going, finding a hundred ways that won\u2019t work to get to the one way that\nwill. That\u2019s what the growth mindset can do for innovators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greene\u2019s Mastery<\/em>, published in 2012, is a step-by-step guide on how to\nmaster any subject, with lessons from masters in varying fields. After finding\nyour life\u2019s calling, something that drives you to grow and improve, you go\nthrough several distinct phases to master it. You can find this niche by\nbranching out from a crowded domain until you find you are the only one\naddressing this topic. Or, you can do it by combining two unique fields for a\nnew perspective into each. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you\u2019ve found it, you go\nthrough a phase of apprenticeship, in which you dedicate yourself to a\npractical understanding of your field, uncovering the hidden and unwritten\nrules, and valuing learning more than earning, for now. This might be painful\nas you learn to focus on one important thing at a time, and you will feel\ninferior, perhaps even stupid, in the process. You will learn as much from\nfailure as from success. Even those considered natural talents had to go\nthrough an apprenticeship phase; they were just fortunate enough to know what\nthey wanted early in life and had the means to pursue it fully from a young\nage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Coming out of apprenticeship,\nGreene explains, one who wants mastery must transition from submitting to\nhumble learning and into a true innovative spirit. You essentially combine the\nway you learned in your apprenticeship with other fields you know, with\nopen-minded creativity, and originality to bring you to something new, a\ndistinctive way of doing things that you have pioneered. With flexible thinking,\nyou can see fresh ways of going forward to become what Greene calls a\n\u201ccreative-active\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here, you begin to add your\nintuition to the mix, formed from intensive years of skills and experience.\nAlthough nobody can say they have \u201carrived\u201d at mastery, those who have\nrelentlessly focused on their field for decades will see their field from a\nvantage point far above the masses who have merely dabbled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Published in 1937, this book\nremains a bestseller for its timeless advice of thirteen lessons garnered from\nthe lives of five hundred real life millionaires. It advocates the concepts\nthat your thoughts become your reality and gives lessons for success based on\nadapting your thoughts to the person you want to become. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Our thoughts are the only\nthing under our absolute control, writes Hill. Therefore, we must learn to\nharness our thoughts to become money conscious, and by doing so, we will\nnaturally and with little effort become the type of person to whom money flows.\nThis model works for any type of success. If you can learn to think of your\ngoal constantly and with single-minded purpose, stick with your decisions, and\nutilize a mastermind group to brainstorm with others, then you can become a\nsuccess in any field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hill writes that one must\nbelieve in himself and have faith in accomplishing one\u2019s mission in order to\nsucceed. This faith is caused by constant visualization of the object of one\u2019s\ndesire. If you are to innovate, you must first see the change you wish to create,\nand then go about creating it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Differing from the other resources\non this list, this 2011 book from Eric Ries provides a specific guideline on\nhow to start a business based on an idea. While the others focus on who you\nneed to be, this one focuses on strategies for what you need to do. The main\nconcept from this book is to start a business quickly with the minimum viable\nproduct, run with the idea, and adapt as needed. In an environment of \u201cextreme\nuncertainty,\u201d an innovator can pivot over and over again when not too much\ndevelopment has been spent on a product before going to market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This book recommends using\n\u201csemi-scientific\u201d methodology to form a hypothesis, and then test it in the\nreal world by offering the product. The product and selling system is\nconstantly tweaked to adjust to lessons learned and a changing marketplace. The\nmethods used here will allow you to start your own business based on your\nideas, and to find mistakes early to they won\u2019t keep your business from\ngrowing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The central message to the\nbook is that learning faster means succeeding faster. The book teaches a feedback\nloop called \u201cbuild-measure-learn\u201d in which you build the project, measure the\ndata, and then gather new ideas from what you\u2019ve learned, which enables you to\nbuild anew. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To be an innovator, most of\nthe work is in who you become. The mind is your most powerful tool, and\ntraining the mind is essential to becoming a person who innovates. What you\ncreate along the way is a byproduct of who you are. However, you can learn ways\nto start now and create something bold even when you\u2019re not yet complete. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One thing that all innovators have in common is a drive to create something new that will change the way things are today. 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Lean Startup by Eric Ries<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Innovating is Being Plus Doing<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n