Innovation Or Insistence? There’s More Than One Way To Reach Your Goal

If your usual door won’t open, be willing to try other doors. In most situations, innovation is often the best, most overlooked option.

Imagine a hallway full of doors, all of which lead to the same destination.

All your life, you’ve seen people go through one particular door, so you use it, too. But one day you try to go through that door and it won’t open for you.

What do you do?

Insistence says, “get me a battering ram, a crowbar or a prayer group. We’re going to push, pry or pray this door open!”

Innovation says “let’s try another door, and another, until we find one that opens. They all go to the same place, after all.”

Both options have their merits. After all, there are times when a door is stuck because of a problem that needs to be fixed. But not always.

We all have to fight the tendency to commit to a door, rather than to the goal on the other side of the door.

When your usual door won’t open, be willing to try other doors. In most situations, innovation is often the best, most overlooked option. Read More