Personal Development

Develop an innovation habit by starting today with health and mental routines; think like a traveler to heighten awareness, observe environments, capture insights, and turn experiences into value.

Observe like an anthropologist and apply field insights to product design, as field observations revealed kids need a big, squishy toothbrush instead of a small one, driving 18-month sales.

treat life as an experiment, embracing risk and learning from each failure, like Edison’s ten thousand ways that do not work and Dyson’s five thousand one hundred twenty eight failures.

Cultivate an attitude of wisdom that balances confidence in what you know with healthy skepticism to stay thirsty for more knowledge, and avoid resting on laurels like Caesar's emperor-for-life moment.

Best Buy's a billion-dollar Musicland acquisition in 2001 failed because executives overestimated market knowledge and ignored a rising Napster-driven shift among 18 to 30 year olds.

Apply your whole brain by blending left-brain analysis with right-brain intuition, and cultivate the tortoise mind for background thinking, contemplation, and daydream-driven insights.

Do what you love to improve at it by examining the circles—what you’re good at, what you’re born to do, and what people pay you to do—with a lab notebook.