Tips for conceptual innovators

If  you’re a conceptual innovator, you need new challenges, new areas to explore, because staying put can be the same as getting stale.

Most of the commonly dispensed advice for would-be innovators is relevant to you, though not to experimental innovators. For example, aiming to strike a balance between self-discipline and “letting go” should help you, because you’re most likely to succeed through spontaneity.  The same applies to making connections between disparate ideas, including “thinking outside the box.”

Youth is likely to be the time when achievements come most easily to you. So too, the early years when you embark on a new endeavor.

When  you reach middle age, don’t worry if you find yourself in a mid-life crisis, because a mid-life shift could bring with it the potential for new breakthroughs in a new field. For mid-life role models, consider Benjamin Franklin, Walt Disney and David Hockney.

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Why it matters

Tips for experimental innovators