Importance of Innovation and the importance to innovate constantly.

Lakshya Pratap Monga
6 min readJan 22, 2022

Is it related to time or does it relate to people?
The fact is that it relates to the people who have the ability to think forward and are able to make a change, people who see the world differently. Innovation happens every day and we cannot deny it. Even if it is a small one, it still has the ability to bring a change? Each Innovation creates a butterfly effect that helps to create more and more and more. Take Apple for example. It innovated the first modern computer, The Macintosh-1. It changed the view of people towards the computer. Prior to that, there were no computer games, it enabled people to make new games and softwares. It was an innovation that helped people innovate more. The Internet, one of the Top 5 creations by the Human Race ever. It did what was not possible before. People could connect with each other without meeting physically, writing letters, wait for the phone to ring which also costed a fortune. It re-established the way people look to computers, pushed the human race forward. There were people who made the impossible, possible.

This was just the Introduction. Why don’t we move forward to some questions about INNOVATION!

1) How can we innovate something?
People
, the most important thing for bringing something new to life whether it is accidental or expected, the most important part to make the impossible, possible. Who are these people? People who see things differently and put their ideas and hard work to make things possible are those people who do something remarkable. These people channel their inner spirit and the want to do something out of the box to create something new. These people or not unlike the common people. They have a unique mindset, a mindset which changes the course of human race.

2) What does it take to innovate something?
To innovate something, TIME is needed. Innovation happens over a course of time. It takes bringing people together, reading books, multiple failures, emotional setbacks and most importantly an Idea to innovate something. A single person cannot bring an idea to the life alone. It does not mean that helping the idealist to make what he/she had idealized. It can be financial input, giving more ideas or even sticking to the idealist emotionally. Reading books, gaining knowledge, and applying it in a way to invent something is somewhat the most difficult part of the whole process. The process is long and keeps getting longer if no hard work is put in. It takes dedication and the will to achieve the goal and it doesn’t come from outside, it comes from the inside. Many people don’t have that will inside but still channel something else inside them to do something meaningful.

People not always agree to your ideas and try to talk you out of it. Some people agree to them about what they are doing is wrong, but some people defy that and do whatever they want. These are those people who have sheer will to do something.
“If you genuinely think that an idea is good, don’t let any idiot talk you out of it”-Stan Lee

While building something, you should have confidence that your result could help people in the way you intend it to be used, from where the ideas comes from-Changing people’s lives. Take Larry Paige for example. He created the most valuable thing on the internet, Google. It wasn’t so simple to just type something on the internet and just watch the results in front of you in a matter of seconds. He created it. Most of you just know that Google is the internet. Larry Paige had that confidence and that immense amount of will and dedication to write a million lines of code to do something off the charts which had the ability to change the course of human race.

Don’t expect the result to be always perfect. It is common to dream high and fulfill those. But don’t expect the way you imagined it to be initially. There would be setbacks, improvisation, improvement, and inevitable evolvement of your end result. If you are just sure that the end result would be what you imagined it to be initially then you will be proved wrong maybe for the better. Even thought the end result would not be perfect according to you and you still think that your end result lacks something, you are right. It would always lack something, but it will eventually get covered up later on as your end result evolves.

There are multiple factors that depend on the physical system in order to innovate something but the most valuable of all is a single idea that leads to more and more and more ideas. Your end result would be just the product of those ideas combined together. Those ideas come from places around you, the places where you travel, conversations from people and it all depends on the kind of environment around you. Let’s take example of Six Degrees for example. It was the first social networking site that was made where people could just share photos and post comments about that. This inspired many more people to create better social networks like MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Instagram, Twitter etc. This category of websites is the most used category of websites. Take Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg believed that people could socialize with the use of internet instead of meeting physically and talking. In this way, you could socialize more. This was the foundation of modern social media networks.
The ideas of making a social networking overlapped over each other and resulted in a better one each time. This is the case of Ideas.



3) Why is it important to innovate?
Innovation or Invention take it as one word, the most important reason why the human race is still progressing and alive today (except oxygen, food, and water). Even in these three cases, innovation was important to ensure the existence and evolution (not biological but philosophical) of the human race. Human race is constantly moving forward will continue to unless and until Innovation does not stop which of course will not. People who think different always find a way to innovate. Take SpaceX for an example. The whole organization is based on space travel. It aims to make space travel common for everybody even though it may take some time to reach at that point but their constant development of newer and newer technologies for space travel brings them closer to their goal. By creating those technologies, they are bringing the human race closer to the making the human space travel as a commercial commodity and I bet it would be by far one of the most successful innovations of the 21st century.
As innovations occur, there are always setbacks regarding that. Like this project would be valued over a billion dollars and would not be accessible to all as it would be an expensive commodity that most of the people would not be able to access.



We answered the questions: why, how, when and what but what about where?
We see that most of the successful Innovators come from the US. It is not because that there is more idealist that any other country. There are tons of other idealist from other countries. So Why is it so?
It is because of the country is always ready to invest into people skills and Research and Development. The country attracts researchers from all over the world and PhD students from all over the world. The government take some measures to enhance the human capital and invest a lot in companies with the vision to develop the whole country.
Further when the government invest in the companies, the companies invest in their technologies and try to develop better and better result (can be a product or any kind of service). Their investment in the R&D pushes their economy forward. They also invest in the educational firms to ensure that the people are well-educated. Their economic model also attracts foreign markets and investors to build their organizations in the country.

In conclusion, Innovation is something that results in the betterment of every person in this world individually and collectively. Be the part of it.

Thanks for reading, have a great day!!

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