Berger: Innovators Distinguish Themselves by Taking Ownership of Questions
Warren Berger · #26 Warren Berger: Improving The Questions You Ask · Dec 14, 2017 · at 53:56
Author Warren Berger explains the innovation mindset and how breakthroughs stem from pursuing questions rather than letting them go.
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“Ownership of a question is, is what every innovator does. Every innovator starts out with a question like why hasn't someone come up with a better way to do X? Okay. And most of us, when we ask that question you know, we're using our snow shovel and it doesn't work well enough or whatever. We ask that question almost reflexively. Why hasn't someone come up with a better snow shovel? And then we don't do anything about it. You know, we just let it go. We let that question just float away into the ether. And what the innovator does is they ask that question, And then they take ownership of it.”
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