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Dan Pink Speaking about DRIVE: The surprising truth about what motivates us

This is a video of Dan Pink’s speech to RSA about his book called “Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us.” Self innovation begins with the motivation to innovate yourself…and then taking action on that. Motivation is continually needed. Dan shares interesting insights for us to stay motivated and motivate others. We innovate ourselves

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The need for self innovation: We have to. The world is changing fast.

The “Did You Know” series of videos on YouTube are great visuals of explaining to us how the world is changing. The speed is so fast that many of us find it difficult to keep up with. It is challenging and our need for self innovation is not a one time event but a constant

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Creativity Education Speech from Ken Robinson on TED Talks

This is a very popular video about creativity and how it can be extinguished by our schooling and many of the organizations we work in. It is a wake up call that we all have the capacity to be creative…we just need to innovate ourselves in that aspect to return to our creative roots!

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TED Talk on Creativity from author of Eat, Pray, & Love

There are many different paths to self innovation and wielding our own creativity. Elizabeth Gilbert shares her story with this popular TED Talks speech.

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Thoreau Inspires Self Innovation

Quotes can sometimes inspire me to innovate myself…or at least to think about it more intentionally. Henry David Thoreau is a definite favorite. He said “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to

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How do you Innovate Yourself?

Have you been playing defense and no offense? Or maybe you feel you aren’t even on the playing field, you are on the sidelines watching. Maybe you aren’t even on the sidelines watching, you are a spectator in the stands. Or worst of all, you don’t even have a ticket for the game, nor cable

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Small is the new big

I saw the most inspiring segment on ABC News about someone who is innovating in a very creative and inspirational way. ABC profiled an artist in England named Willard Wigan who creates microart. This artist creates amazing painted sculptures that are smaller than the eye of a needle. He couldn’t read or write and said

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Foundational, Uncomfortable, and Innovating Decisions

Rethink your comfortable decisions. Sometimes we naturally decide things that are comfortable to us. We choose things we are familiar with. This can be counter to “innovating yourself.” Some decisions are fundamentally more important because they influence how you will operate. Think about which decision would be more innovative, provide you with new opportunities, or

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Learning to Innovate Yourself from Rocky

You want to see a good movie about Innovating Yourself? Go see Rocky Balboa. Rocky stirs very old memories for me of going into the basement with my Dad and punching the pillow after seeing Rocky II. It also reminds me of Rocky IV and seeing that in Rochester with my family and leaving the

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Learning How to Learn

To innovate yourself, learning how to learn becomes critical. As we get entrenched in the routine of our life we have fewer powerful opportunities to learn how to learn, unlike children who are constantly learning completely new things. We also become more resistant to trying new things because we are afraid to do them badly

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