Today’s Tip - No Wasted Effort:

One of the keys to major innovative breakthrough is the realization that what others might call failure, embarrassment, or wasted effort was actually just compost and fertilizer that allowed the best solution to grow stronger.

Design Thinking shortcut for today:

Today’s Design Thinking shortcut: Often—especially for high achievers or those with big, audacious, idealistic dreams—you have to be willing to push through what others are afraid to try or what they might see as wasted effort. Because if your dream is big enough, it isn’t going to happen on the first try.

Every ounce of effort is making you stronger, even when it feels like nothing is moving the needle. Growth is happening beneath the surface long before anyone can see it.

So after anything that looks like a failure, don’t forget to pause. Do your retrospective. Then add what you’ve learned to your growing knowledge of how to do it even better the next time.

Sometimes the needle is moving more than you realize. It is just making you stronger, before it advances your dream.

Innovation shortcut for today:

Today’s Innovation shortcut: Every effort you make is compost for a beautiful garden. So don’t be afraid to try. And tend to it patiently, just like you would a cotton field.