如何不斷創新？

An excerpt from Bill Buxton’s 如何不斷創新？(How to keep innovating?),

Always be bad at something that you are passionate about.

By this, I really mean two things: always be a beginner at something, and always be in love with what you are beginning.

Why? The latter keeps a fire in your heart and soul, and the former keeps you grounded. The more expert you are in your “day job,” the more important such grounding is. Additionally, the further such new beginnings are from your core expertise, the more likely it is that they will feed that expertise in some unexpected way in the future.

For example, Yvon Chouinard refers to himself as “an 80% man.” Yvon is the founder of clothing company Patagonia and the author of one of my favorite design books of the past decade, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman. [...]

Remember: You can learn from anyone.

So, yes, my coach was an Olympian. But on the other hand, some of my most valuable lessons were learned from a 14-year-old girl who, while laughing at my incompetence on horseback, was also generous with her insights. Was she world-class? No, but her feedback was exactly what I needed. Riding in that environment was a very design-like experience in that we critiqued each other. It was a salient reminder: All of those in training are also coaches of a sort.

Bill Buxton is one of my of most admired people and he is on my Great Minds of Our Time list.