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Why it is important ?
Imagination is more important than knowledge.For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution--- Albert Einstein
- why do people need imagination?
- imagination allows one to have strong creative abilities.
- imagination can stimulates  inspiration and innovation.

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We all have imagination, Imagination create our world more convenient, and it allows one to have strong abilities and it can stimulates inspiration and innovation。

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.       ------ Albert Einstein
According to this quote, imagination is much more important than our knowledge, imagination is the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses. Through this definition, imagination can allow one to have strong creative abilities, it also can stimulate inspiration and innovation.

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Imagination was a big buzzword when we were kids (before we knew what "buzzword" meant, anyway). However, since entering the workplace, it's almost vanished from our vocabulary.

And that's too bad, because our imaginations can help us solve challenging business problems, innovate, and explore new possibilities and futures.

In fact, it's time to bring imagination back. And we've found the best resources on the internet for harnessing yours. Imagine that!

1. The greats always know how to unleash their imagination. This article shares methods used by Steve Jobs, Bob Dylan, and the inventor of Post-its.

2. Everybody could use a little ohm in their offices: A Frontiers in Cognition study found that certain types of meditation make you more creative. (Science Daily)

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10 Ways Your Imagination Can Make You Better at Your Job

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Imagination was a big buzzword when we were kids (before we knew what "buzzword" meant, anyway). However, since entering the workplace, it's almost vanished from our vocabulary. And that's too bad, because our imaginations can help us solve challenging business problems, innovate, and explore new possibilities and futures.

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the story of how does eistein use his imagination create the lights

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Do you know this guy on the left? Of course you do! The man, and in particular that photo, are icons. They represent creativity itself.

Yet Einstein is both an inspiration and an intimidation. His legend, unfortunately, has obscured much his story's true value. He was, in many ways, unexceptional, but nevertheless managed to see the world differently and led others to do so as well.

Although obviously intelligent, he showed no special early aptitude. He was neither rich nor poor. While not tremendously popular as a child, he was no loner either. His extraordinarily genius was very much the product of a method and it is one which we can all follow.

Intense Domain Knowledge

Many believe that in order to be creative you must eschew conventional ideas and Einstein is often held up as an example. He isn't.

Despite apocryphal stories that he failed math class, Einstein was a good, if unruly, student. He studied physics intensely, worked towards a doctorate and sought out a job as an ordinary physics professor. It was his poor lecturing ability (and possibly his poor behavior towards a professor) that kept him from a more conventional academic career.

Moreover, even his legendary burst of creativity in 1905, during what is now called his miracle year, focused on topics widely discussed among physicists of the time. His discoveries utilized concepts such as Planck's law and Maxwell's equations, standard for physicists but impenetrable to laymen, even today.

So while it's true that he was somewhat of an outsider to the ivory towers of the physics community, it wasn't by choice. He was, in fact, struggling to gain acceptance (of both himself and his doctoral dissertation). In a similar vein, the most creative people I have known have all been avid students of their field.

It helps to know what the rules are before you set out to break them.

A Good Problem

When he was a boy, Einstein daydreamed about riding on a beam of light. As Maxwell's equations proposed that the speed of light was constant, this created an interesting problem. What would he see while traveling on a light beam? Later Einstein would pose another question - What would it be to ride on an elevator in space?

Both of these seemingly simple queries led to breakthrough discoveries. From the first, Einstein inferred that if the speed of light is constant then time and space must be relative. From the second, he guessed that motion and gravity were similar phenomena. These insights are the essence of special and general relativity, respectively.

One of the most salient aspects of Einstein's method was that his ability to frame problems was just as valuable, and as valued, when he was wrong. He came out on the losing end of his famous debates with Bohr, but the questions he posed helped shape physics for decades.

One of Einstein's most famous mistakes, the EPR paradox, led to the successful teleportation of light photons at IBM labs in 1993. It was because of his ability to distill important concepts that Einstein's failures were often more fruitful than most people's successes.

Crossing Domains

We often get so wrapped up in our own area of expertise - its paradigms, practices and social networks - that we fail to look elsewhere for insights. That's a mistake. Great creativity comes from breadth as much as depth.

As I wrote in an earlier post, breakthrough discoveries often come through synthesizing knowledge from disparate domains. Here are some examples:

Einstein and Hume: Although Einstein's focus was on physics, he read philosophy extensively. He was particularly influenced by David Hume and his ideas about skepticism and the problem of induction.

While Hume argued strenuously for the primacy of empirical knowledge, he noted that that our reliance on past experience can lead us astray. He rightly pointed out that even our belief that the sun will rise tomorrow is mainly a function of expediency and convenience.

This was a particularly useful insight for the problems that Einstein was working on. Although we experience time and space as constant and perceive gravity to be something completely different than motion, Einstein realized that the truth might be otherwise. That, along with his diligence in working out the math, is how he changed the world.

Picasso and African Art: At the turn of the century, Pablo Picasso was already a successful young artist in Paris. However, it was his encounter with African art that led him to pioneer cubism and marked a turning point in his career. His later work, combining aspects of both European and African style, changed the art world forever.

Picasso was the defining artist of the 20th century not simply because of his formidable technical skill, but through his talent for combination.

Watson and Crick: In the 1950's there were a number of prominent scientists who were seeking to unlock the genetic code.

The legendary Linus Pauling was using the same model building approach that led him to discover the structure of other important molecules. Rosalind Franklin was attacking the problem through the new technique of X-ray diffraction and Erwin Chargaff had already uncovered the rules that define DNA's structure.

However, it was none of these, but two relatively unknown researchers, James Watson and Francis Crick, that cracked the problem. Amazingly, they did it not by uncovering new information, but by combining the insights of those mentioned above.

Persistence

No matter how smart you are, most of your ideas will be crap. There's nothing wrong with that. Einstein himself struggled and was often (especially in his later career) proved wrong.

The early "miracle year" which catapulted him to the forefront of physics came after years of hardship, frustration and despair (as I described in an earlier post). Even after his initial insights into special relativity, he spent another ten years trying to unlock the secrets of general relativity, during which he traveled down a number of blind alleys.

Yet, he never gave up. While denied a PhD, he continued to study and work on physics in his spare time. When he lacked the mathematical background needed to solve the problem of general relativity he went back and studied non-Euclidean geometry and eventually beat David Hilbert, one of the great mathematicians of the age, to the prize.

Despite his cheerful countenance, Einstein was gutsy. Not just because he wasn't afraid to voice unconventional ideas, but because he had the grit to endure years of privation in order to see them through.

Creativity Is Something Everyone Can Do

In a very real sense, we've all been conned. The guy pictured at the top of the page really wasn't all that creative nor did he accomplish much.

In fact, he was so rigid in his thinking that he was unable to accept the quantum revolution that defines physics today.

The reality is that it was the guy to the left, the conservatively dressed low-level government clerk, rather than the icon we know today, who shocked the world.

Unfortunately, we have gotten used to sequestering creativity. Marketing agencies have creative teams and corporations often rely on strategic consultants for new ideas. Yet there's no reason that insight and inventiveness should be defined by a job description.

As Robert Weisberg pointed out in his excellent book, Creativity: The Myth of Genius, great creative thinking arises out of rather ordinary thought processes. Genius is, of course, helpful, but not essential and many of those that are considered geniuses have fairly normal IQ's.

So the secret to unlocking creativity is not grabbing for wild ideas or waiting for divine inspiration, but through knowing your field, defining good problems, taking useful ideas from separate domains and tenaciously seeking out effective solutions. That's within the reach of all of us.

Creativity comes from combining ordinary things in extraordinary ways.

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Do you know this guy on the left? Of course you do! The man, and in particular that photo, are icons. They represent creativity itself. Yet Einstein is both an inspiration and an intimidation. His legend, unfortunately, has obscured much his story's true value.

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To begin with, Imagination can allows one to have stong abilities. Everyone knows who is Albert Eistein, he was a famous guy that prove the special relativity and general relativity , but how can he came up with this idea? Accroding to the research, when he was a child he daydream that he riding on a beam light, when he grew up he remembered that he dreamed about the light and he got interest he wanted to know the speed of the light. From the first he did a lot of experiment of the lights, From the second he proved a lot of physical problems. When the time passed, he figured it out and he invented the lights.（https://www.digitaltonto.com/2011/how-to-unlock-creativity/）If he didn't solve this relativity, people won't know the relativity, he use his imagination to solve this, so when he did a lot of experiments he use his abilities to solve it. To emphasize, if human beings use the imagination, it can allows them to have strong abilities.

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Many artists need the inspiration, but how do they get the inspiration, they get it from the imagination.

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One of the biggest questions that an art theorist or historian or art lover can ask is; why do people create art? What inspires the artist? It is a question that can be applied to all forms of visual art, from landscape paintings to contemporary installations. Humans have been creating works of art since the dawn of time and by simply visiting an art gallery or museum you can see how varied this world is.

Bertram Nicholls - Abbey Ruins

So, how does an artist begin to make work, where do they find their inspiration? Well, there are many different answers to this; what is comes down to is the artist's individual voice. In this article we aim to begin to answer this question by looking at a few areas where artists throughout time have found inspiration.
Beginning an Artwork
All art begins with an idea - whether it is clear cut and linear or simply just a feeling. Every artist will have thought; 'what do I want to create? What do I want to say or document?'

'What Inspires Artists?'
Reflect Beauty
Edward Wesson - On The Broads

Beauty inspires beauty and this is ever apparent in the creation of landscape paintings. Natural landscapes can provide awe-inspiring feelings that many artists wish to replicate or at least represent in their artwork. To create something beautiful is often a driving force behind creating art.
Historical Event
Often artwork was created in relation to a significant event in time; this is more common with more historical art pieces, as of course, there were no cameras to document great wars and important events. The documentation of history is an important one which is why many artists even today are still inspired by past happenings.
The Human Figure
Stephen Rose - Leticia Reclining

Perhaps one of the most documented subject matters in art history is the human figure - especially the female figure. It is interesting to see how the depiction of the female form has altered throughout history altering in size and shape. The body is a great source of inspiration; there are many different poses where artists can explore their abilities and increase their representational skills.
Emotions & Feelings
Much art has been inspired by emotions and feelings; which is why art therapy is considered to be an effective method of care and treatment for mental illness. Abstract art is often inspired by mood and emotion; however, this isn't always the case. All humans feel emotions therefore artwork inspired by them can indeed be universal.
To Challenge Society
The role of the artist has often been to challenge society and instigate social change, it is especially apparent in the modernist era up until today. Artists such as Marcel Duchamp were inspired by the art scene at the time which was incredibly exclusive and desired to challenge it with modernist creations which were much more kitsch rather than beautiful or skilful - it was art for arts sake.

Artwork inspired by the above subjects isn't always representational; that is the beauty of art, you can be inspired by an event or a physical landscape and create something completely unique and different.

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Afterward, imagination can stimulate people's inspiration. For instance, they are many artists in the entire world, all the artist they need the inspiration to create their artwork, but where does the inspiration come from? According to the research, if you need the inspiration you need to have the imagination when they begin to create their artwork they need an idea, and the idea is from the imagination, they need to use the imagination to create the idea. For example, there is an artist that is called Helen Garrett, she said that imagination is essential to her society, artist offer vision, imagination, inspiration, all the aspects of human beings that help the artist to evolve. When she has the inspiration, she uses her imagination to make this inspiration come true. Through this interview, imagination can definitely help us to stimulates the inspiration.

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The Opening of the Imagination

It is a challenge to try to capture with painted brushstrokes, something that is moving and changing all the time; the shifting clouds, reflections and colours; every second the landscape is changing and made new by subtle transformations

The experience of making something from raw materials is a simple and fundamental one. The coldness of clay, the smell of linseed oil, the familiar feel of wooden tools or brushes connect you to the elements. Over time the process of choosing the right colour and quality of paint becomes unconscious and instinctive. During painting hundreds of decisions are made - from minute changes to complete destruction of previous work.

The painting becomes a vehicle for ideas and feelings that are explored on an unconscious level during the building of layers. Painting helps to bring 'feeling' into a deeper and more universal realm.

When painting, I look for suggestions of shape and form within the background, almost like an archaeological dig, pulling the images out that emerge and then create a scene. This is an exciting way of working. Somehow you have to give yourself up to the process... and then the painting reveals itself.

Facing the edge, the necessity of facing oneself

Whilst painting I observe the strengths and weaknesses of the image. Part of the process is to look for weak areas in the painting that need to be brought up to hold strong with the others. I can see my passion, laziness, excitement and weariness as the painting develops. There is no place to hide. Sometimes mistakes and dramatic decisions can result in really interesting results and keep the life of the painting fresh.

Working with purpose and yet allowing the natural flowof the painting holds deep symbolism for me.

I hope to keep a strong will and purpose in life but not at the cost of closing out the 'great unknowns' that life brings. I want to be open enough to learn from life and trust it, even though it cracks you right open. It is like being on the edge.

It is this edge that interests me - the in between, the energy between things, the potential for change. There is something about committing to a painting that is committing yourself to being open to the unknown, which involves the chance of failure as well as of joy. It is a powerful place.

You have to face the edge of your deepest questioning Always starting with a question... and then peeling back the layers to uncover one's own truthful experience of reality. Life unfolds in ways we cannot imagine; paying close attention to our longings, what is inviting and calling us can help us to understand where we fit, can create a natural flow of meaning and authenticity in our lives.

Being True

'Am I being true to myself, therefore am I being true to the world?'

Some days I can return home and feel like my consciousness has completely shifted and changed and other days I feel stuck in old patterns and self-doubt.

I notice a stillness that lies beneath each tempestuous painting - like a writer who witnesses the same kind of character entering the story again and again. This sense of stillness can be incredibly powerful because of what lies beneath. It is the tension between stillness on surface waters and the deep currents underneath.

What are these aspects that emerge so mysteriously.

As a child the imagination felt like a pool of chaotic and tempestuous imagery in which to explore, a place of ultimate freedom but slightly out of control. The imagination was discussed in rather derogatory terms as being 'overactive' or as things being 'all in your imagination'.

Loved ones do their best to try to keep us safe but lucky for us, the imagination comes in to play so that we can ask our own questions essential for our own very unique journey through life.

This is the ultimate freedom of the human spirit. As a young artist I became fascinated by the images and characters that were appearing and re-appearing in drawings and I realized they were of a deep symbolism that I didn't understand, but knew was a part of me also.

I remember thinking... there is no language for this much feeling...

The imaginative world stood with equal weight as my reality - with its endless mystery and revelation. My body couldn't seem to cope with the amount of feeling being experienced, whether it was feelings of power, nervousness, shyness, being loved or being afraid. I was happy and surprised to start working with the imagination and see the beautiful help that came my way when I committed to being true to it.

As a painter, you engage with a relationship. You face the painting and the painting faces you, things happen and you witness them. We have to take risks and trust what emerges. Cecil Collins the Artist and Visionary once stated that:

"The paintings are already inside me - like seeds in a garden..."

Often Sculptors say that they feel that the form of their finished piece has been waiting inside the stone all along and that they have just revealed it.

We enter into conversation with works of art whether it is a poem, painting or piece of music. We enter into that world that is created for us and it can offer huge personal meaning.

Do these expressions of creativity come from the imagination or is the imagination a portal that opens this space and allows the conversation to occur?

When we witness an experienced dancer, we are moved by the beauty and confidence of her movements. We use terms like 'gifted' or 'god given talent' but actually we are responding to her close relationship with what her body already knows.

She has engaged with a flow or deeper wisdom that lies within her. Her commitment and practice increases her power as an artist and we feel a sense of awe when we witness the fluidity of her art.

For me, the imagination opens us to deep wisdom. Of course sometimes we can't always understand our dreams and desires but they are held I feel, by a supporting platform of innate presence.

It is this presence or steady light that seems to carry into life outside of the studio and taken the place of existential questioning from my younger days.

I think a good question to ask oneself is: When do I feel most alive? For me, when in the 'flow' of artistic practice, unaware of time and belonging to some other rhythm.

Falling in and out of time.

When there is an understanding, and true acceptance through friendship. Where there is true connection - there is ecstasy. When the breeze touches your face and you witness nature throughout your whole being, this to me is ecstasy.

This open channel - somehow it is like death. So perhaps death is a form of sublime ecstasy.

Then there is despair when there is no connection felt, no dance, no union - some existential void. An artist friend in crisis recently told me "I can't paint, therefore I have lost my connection to God".

Learning to be free

When we walk through into the imaginative space we start to experience concepts such as eternity and we meet with a completely different feeling about the priorities that are expected in everyday Western society.

The imaginative world opens our sense of possibility, which can also bring fear, hence the warnings of our close ones. We are worried perhaps about 'losing our minds' or being out of touch with the real world. We fear offering a different view to that may be mocked or won't fit in with 'the norm' Shakespeare said of the Imagination:
"It is the prophetic soul of the whole world dreaming on things to come"
And most of all I believe we lack trust in ourselves that we can create our own moral codes and boundaries from a deep lived experience of being human.

We can feel utterly lost in the abyss of timelessness and yet also find strength enough to appear and be counted in our own unique way.

Trusting that my imagery could teach me something set me on a path of discovery that gave me a direct relationship with life.

The Poetic Imagination

On discovering the idea of 'The Poetic Imagination' I felt like I was coming home. At last something settled and I knew this was the way I experienced life.

Opening to the poetic imagination can be incredibly isolating and deeply blissful when you recognize that connections made with others can be of the highest truest kind.

However it is challenging to sustain the openness and vulnerability that this life demands. It can be exhausting to sustain amidst a 'normal' family and work environment - rather like currents streaming against each other at times.

Making art doesn't stop and start in the studio. The revelations and despairs change you and are carried into your whole life; the desperate need for aloneness, the taking stock - where am I now? Trying to follow the soulful flow that our spirit invites us into.

Disruptions can prove very tiring because of how much investment goes into getting there in the first place.

As we live our lives open to the imagination our relationship with it strengthens. The imagination creates a spacious narrative for our past and for the present. It is a place where we can be absolutely free.

Valuing our creative imaginations is essential to our society. Artists offer Vision, Invention, Imagination and Original thinking, all the aspects of human beings that help us evolve.

As the years go I have sensed a shift where the imagination has a supporting role in my life. I do not fear the spaciousness of it. The Imagination for me is still a resource and yet there is something more deep and profound taking place. The imaginative powers have a serious and steady role now in the way life moves through me.

It seems that painting and poetry amongst other things strengthen my relationship with it and therefore my relationship to all things.

The creative process I am involved with grounds my whole life. The notebooks and images offer a view of 'soul' and it's unique place in this world as we all have. Images express a deeper Universal 'human condition.' when you become aware of this it teaches you humility.

Art, for me is a form of prayer.

The imagination is infinite. It is opened and closed by our levels of protective and defensive layering. It is beside us, within us, outside of us, it is perception; it is energetic meeting points between people. It is prophecy and timeless travel and empathy and nothingness all at once.

Poet speaks of a kiss

That ends all life
The God once seen
Through her transparent cheek

Perfect in our brokenness
We hold together
Eclipsed

Through all the measured hours
Of the day

Through all the golden pathways
Of desire

Unable to find the name of it

Only light

Only silence
Helen Garrett 2014

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About Helen Garrett

Helen Garrett has been working as a professional Artist for fifteen years selling her paintings privately and internationally. Her paintings have been described as 'deeply spiritual' and of the 'English Romantic Tradition'. View all posts with Helen Garrett

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Imagination and Art - Interalia Magazine

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An artist with a deep sense of working with the 'poetic imagination, Helen Garrett discusses her work and the 'conversation' she has with her work during its creation. She asks "do these expressions of creativity come from the imagination or is the imagination a portal that opens this space and allows the conversation to occur?"

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"Innovation to me is creating the future. It requires a relentless desire to challenge beliefs around 'what is' and 'what works' in order to provide new solutions to problems," says Sarah Robb O'Hagan, Gatorade president, North America, and global chief marketing officer, sports nutrition, for PepsiCo.

Robb O'Hagan defines creativity as "a very personal thing and it should mean very different things to different people." In her case it's the process of "following my instincts and using my imagination to see ideas and solutions that haven't existed before. I was one of those kids who had an imaginary friend (her name was Sally!) and my mother still recalls everything about the life that Sally lived because I described it in such detail. In some respects what I do today isn't really that different to what I did by creating Sally's little universe. It's about seeing something you want to create that doesn't really exist today."

Fast Company sat down with Robb O'Hagan, who is participating in the upcoming Innovation Uncensored conference on Wednesday, April 18 in New York City, to discuss her thoughts on innovation, leadership, and creative thinking.
FAST COMPANY: We know your mom approved of imaginary friends, so would you consider your family to be creative in any regard?
SARAH ROBB O'HAGAN: Yes, absolutely. Most prominently I come from a musical family-my mum insisted that all of us learned musical instruments from a very young age. But on my dad's side I had a grandmother who was a florist, and I think that instilled a real appreciation in him for art and the beauty of nature. Fast-forward to today and I have a brother that is a guitarist and two sisters that are known for bringing to life the most incredible experiences when it comes to entertaining! So yes, I think we grew up in a very creative environment. I also think I'm really lucky that I had the benefit of growing up in a very creative country. I come from New Zealand, and it's a very small, but highly entrepreneurial little country. We have a real pioneering spirit as a nation, and I think it's something that has been a big part of shaping the creative mind I have now.
What object that you own or interact with regularly most inspires your creative thinking?
My iPad, because it is basically an external representation of my brain! I love my iPad because it's a place where I have everything that inspires me. Little notes and thoughts that I jot down throughout the day alongside my sources of new ideas like Twitter and Pinterest, and of course music that puts my brain into a creative place.
Speaking of music, do you have a go-to artist, album, or song that you listen to for inspiration?
It's too hard to pin down one song that is an all-time favorite, as I love so much music. But when I am sitting down with the intention of creating new plans or ideas, I often find myself turning to Mozart to stimulate my mind. Pretty much everything he wrote was perfection, and it puts my mind in a calm and inspired place.
Mozart aside, how did you find your last great idea?
By running! Running is the time every day when I have space to think and reflect and be inspired. It is a very creative time for me when I turn over in my mind the many things I may have read or talked about the previous day, and frequently I can see new solutions to problems because I'm digesting information that comes at me from many sources.
On a bigger scale, thinking of your team at Gatorade, how do you create a culture of innovation and encourage creativity?
By setting the example for my team. I try very hard to stimulate thinking in the team by acting like the chief "curator" of interesting ideas and stimulus that might propel our creativity. I also like to make it clear that my expectations are for everyone to constantly be curious. I read recently that people who are intent on proving they are right are usually the same people that are not particularly curious. I try to watch out for that kind of attitude that might suppress the team's ability to innovate. It's so important to believe that things can always be better and that there actually never really is one "right" answer.
What do you think is the most important trait in a leader?
I truly think it's the ability to inspire people with a vision. You can't be a leader if people don't want to follow you, and they need to be truly inspired to come along on a journey. I think it's also really important to be approachable and to have a style that is authentic that people can really connect to.
What was the most valuable experience you've had as a leader that made you a better boss?
Spectacular failures! Truly, I have had some pretty awesome "misses" in my career, and I think it really helps you to have a sense of empathy with those around you when you've made mistakes and you are still standing to tell the tale. When you are trying to lead an innovation culture, by definition the things you are doing are scary for the team, so I think it helps them to know that failure is okay and that you will be there to be the safety net if they need it because you have been through failures before and you know what a learning opportunity they can be.
What is the biggest blind spot in leaders today and how do you correct it?
Someone advised me once that the more senior you become, the lonelier it gets and the more disconnected you can become from the energy and needs of the team. This is so incredibly true and I think it can become a real blind spot for leaders. It's human nature that people don't want to give the boss the "bad news," and as the leader you don't get brought in to many of the interpersonal dynamics between the team so that disconnection can happen easily. You need to challenge yourself to constantly "check in" and make sure you are asking people at all levels how they are doing. That way you can be in touch with the energy of the team and be sure they are still following you!
What can a big company learn from a startup?
That you have to swing for the fences if you are going to change the game! I recently gave a speech at a conference for the Global Entrepreneurs' Organization (@entrepreneurorg) and was so inspired by the courageous attitudes of all the startup owners that I met. They don't have the resources that big companies have to try prove that things are going to work through pre-commercialization testing methodologies. Therefore they don't over think things, and they put a premium on action over debate and discussion. I think there is a lot to be learned from that.
This post is part of a series giving readers a sneak peek at some of the speakers and the ideas we'll be discussing at Innovation Uncensored on April 18 in New York City. Read other interviews in the series here:
KAYAK On Creating A Culture Of Innovatio n
What is Generation Flux? Kate Brodock Of Girls In Tech Has Innovation Lost Its Meaning? Percolate's Noah Brier On Its True Definition How To Get From A Great Idea To Actual Innovation Everything You Need To Know About Innovation You Learned In Grade School Here's a quick look at some of the other speakers featured:

Bob Bowman, President & CEO, MLB Advanced Media

Bob Lord, Global CEO, Razorfish

Tory Burch, Designer and CEO, Tory Burch LLC

Ajaz Ahmend, Founder and Chairman, AKQA

General (Ret.) Stanley A. McChrystal, U.S. Army; Cofounder, The McChrystal Group

Stefan Olander, VP. Digital Sport, Nike

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"Innovation to me is creating the future. It requires a relentless desire to challenge beliefs around 'what is' and 'what works' in order to provide new solutions to problems," says Sarah Robb O'Hagan, Gatorade president, North America, and global chief marketing officer, sports nutrition, for PepsiCo.

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What Happened?

The Internet has turned our existence upside down. It has revolutionized communications, to the extent that it is now our preferred medium of everyday communication. In almost everything we do, we use the Internet. Ordering a pizza, buying a television, sharing a moment with a friend, sending a picture over instant messaging. Before the Internet, if you wanted to keep up with the news, you had to walk down to the newsstand when it opened in the morning and buy a local edition reporting what had happened the previous day. But today a click or two is enough to read your local paper and any news source from anywhere in the world, updated up to the minute.

The Internet itself has been transformed. In its early days-which from a historical perspective are still relatively recent-it was a static network designed to shuttle a small freight of bytes or a short message between two terminals; it was a repository of information where content was published and maintained only by expert coders. Today, however, immense quantities of information are uploaded and downloaded over this electronic leviathan, and the content is very much our own, for now we are all commentators, publishers, and creators.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the Internet widened in scope to encompass the IT capabilities of universities and research centers, and, later on, public entities, institutions, and private enterprises from around the world. The Internet underwent immense growth; it was no longer a state-controlled project, but the largest computer network in the world, comprising over 50,000 sub-networks, 4 million systems, and 70 million users.

The emergence of web 2.0 in the first decade of the twenty-first century was itself a revolution in the short history of the Internet, fostering the rise of social media and other interactive, crowd-based communication tools.

The Internet was no longer concerned with information exchange alone: it was a sophisticated multidisciplinary tool enabling individuals to create content, communicate with one another, and even escape reality. Today, we can send data from one end of the world to the other in a matter of seconds, make online presentations, live in parallel "game worlds," and use pictures, video, sound, and text to share our real lives, our genuine identity. Personal stories go public; local issues become global.

The rise of the Internet has sparked a debate about how online communication affects social relationships. The Internet frees us from geographic fetters and brings us together in topic-based communities that are not tied down to any specific place. Ours is a networked, globalized society connected by new technologies. The Internet is the tool we use to interact with one another, and accordingly poses new challenges to privacy and security.

Information technologies have wrought fundamental change throughout society, driving it forward from the industrial age to the networked era. In our world, global information networks are vital infrastructure-but in what ways has this changed human relations? The Internet has changed business, education, government, healthcare, and even the ways in which we interact with our loved ones-it has become one of the key drivers of social evolution.

The changes in social communication are of particular significance. Although analogue tools still have their place in some sectors, new technologies are continuing to gain ground every day, transforming our communication practices and possibilities-particularly among younger people. The Internet has removed all communication barriers. Online, the conventional constraints of space and time disappear and there is a dizzyingly wide range of communicative possibilities. The impact of social media applications has triggered discussion of the "new communication democracy."

The development of the Internet today is being shaped predominantly by instant, mobile communications. The mobile Internet is a fresh revolution. Comprehensive Internet connectivity via smartphones and tablets is leading to an increasingly mobile reality: we are not tied to any single specific device, and everything is in the cloud.

People no longer spend hours gazing at a computer screen after work or class; instead, they use their mobile devices to stay online everywhere, all the time.

Anyone failing to keep abreast of this radical change is losing out on an opportunity.

Communication Opportunities Created by the Internet

The Internet has become embedded in every aspect of our day-to-day lives, changing the way we interact with others. This insight struck me when I started out in the world of social media. I created my first social network in 2005, when I was finishing college in the United States-it had a political theme. I could already see that social media were on the verge of changing our way of communicating, helping us to share information by opening up a new channel that cuts across conventional ones.

That first attempt did not work out, but I learned from the experience.I get the feeling that in many countries failure is punished too harshly-but the fact is, the only surefire way of avoiding failure is to do nothing at all. I firmly believe that mistakes help you improve; getting it wrong teaches you how to get it right. Creativity, hard work, and a positive attitude will let you achieve any goal.

In 2006, after I moved to Spain, I created Tuenti. Tuenti (which, contrary to widespread belief, has nothing to do with the number 20; it is short for "tu entidad," the Spanish for "your entity") is a social communication platform for genuine friends. From the outset, the idea was to keep it simple, relevant, and private. That's the key to its success.

I think the real value of social media is that you can stay in touch from moment to moment with the people who really matter to you. Social media let you share experiences and information; they get people and ideas in touch instantly, without frontiers. Camaraderie, friendship, and solidarity-social phenomena that have been around for as long as humanity itself-have been freed from the conventional restrictions of space and time and can now thrive in a rich variety of ways.

Out of all the plethora of communication opportunities that the Internet has opened up, I would highlight the emergence of social media and the way they have intricately melded into our daily lives. Social media have changed our personal space, altering the way we interact with our loved ones, our friends, and our sexual partners; they have forced us to rethink even basic daily processes like studying and shopping; they have affected the economy by nurturing the business startup culture and electronic commerce; they have even given us new ways to form broad-based political movements.

The Internet and Education

The Internet has clearly impacted all levels of education by providing unbounded possibilities for learning. I believe the future of education is a networked future. People can use the Internet to create and share knowledge and develop new ways of teaching and learning that captivate and stimulate students' imagination at any time, anywhere, using any device. By connecting and empowering students and educators, we can speed up economic growth and enhance the well-being of society throughout the world. We should work together, over a network, to build the global learning society.

The network of networks is an inexhaustible source of information. What's more, the Internet has enabled users to move away from their former passive role as mere recipients of messages conveyed by conventional media to an active role, choosing what information to receive, how, and when. The information recipient even decides whether or not they want to stay informed.

We have moved on from scattergun mass communication to a pattern where the user proactively selects the information they need.

Students can work interactively with one another, unrestricted by physical or time constraints. Today, you can use the Internet to access libraries, encyclopedias, art galleries, news archives, and other information sources from anywhere in the world: I believe this is a key advantage in the education field. The web is a formidable resource for enhancing the process of building knowledge.

I also believe the Internet is a wonderful tool for learning and practicing other languages-this continues to be a critical issue in many countries, including Spain, and, in a globalized world, calls for special efforts to improve.

The Internet, in addition to its communicative purposes, has become a vital tool for exchanging knowledge and education; it is not just an information source, or a locus where results can be published, it is also a channel for cooperating with other people and groups who are working on related research topics.

The Internet and Privacy and Security

Another key issue surrounding Internet use is privacy. Internet users are becoming more sensitive to the insight that privacy is a must-have in our lives.

Privacy has risen near the top of the agenda in step with an increasing awareness of the implications of using social media. Much of the time, people started to use social media with no real idea of the dangers, and have wised up only through trial and error-sheer accident, snafus, and mistakes. Lately, inappropriate use of social media seems to hit the headlines every day. Celebrities posting inappropriate comments to their profiles, private pictures and tapes leaked to the Internet at large, companies displaying arrogance toward users, and even criminal activities involving private-data trafficking or social media exploitation.

All this shows that-contrary to what many people seem to have assumed-online security and privacy are critical, and, I believe, will become even more important going forward. And, although every user needs privacy, the issue is particularly sensitive for minors-despite attempts to raise their awareness, children still behave recklessly online.

I have always been highly concerned about privacy. On Tuenti, the default privacy setting on every user account is the highest available level of data protection. Only people the user has accepted as a "friend" can access their personal details, see their telephone number, or download their pictures. This means that, by default, user information is not accessible to third parties. In addition, users are supported by procedures for reporting abuse. Any user can report a profile or photograph that is abusive, inappropriate, or violates the terms of use: action is taken immediately. Security and privacy queries are resolved within 24 hours.

We need to be aware that different Internet platforms provide widely different privacy experiences. Some of them are entirely open and public; no steps whatsoever are taken to protect personal information, and all profiles are indexable by Internet search engines.

On the other hand, I think the debate about whether social media use should be subject to an age requirement is somewhat pointless, given that most globally active platforms operate without age restrictions. The European regulatory framework is quite different from the United States and Asian codes. Companies based in Europe are bound by rigorous policies on privacy and underage use of social media. This can become a competitive drawback when the ground rules do not apply equally to all players-our American and Japanese competitors, for instance, are not required to place any kind of age constraint on access.

Outside the scope of what the industry or regulators can do, it is vital that users themselves look after the privacy of their data. I believe the information is the user's property, so the user is the only party entitled to control the collection, use, and disclosure of any information about him or herself. Some social networks seem to have forgotten this fact-they sell data, make it impossible to delete an account, or make it complex and difficult to manage one's privacy settings. Everything should be a lot simpler and more transparent.

Social networks should continue to devote intense efforts to developing self-regulation mechanisms and guidelines for this new environment of online coexistence to ensure that user information is safe: the Internet should be a space for freedom, but also for trust. The main way of ensuring that social media are used appropriately is awareness. But awareness and user education will be of little use unless it becomes an absolute requirement that the privacy of the individual is treated as a universal value.

The Internet and Culture

As in the sphere of education, the development of information and communication technologies and the wide-ranging effects of globalization are changing what we are, and the meaning of cultural identity. Ours is a complex world in which cultural flows across borders are always on the rise. The concepts of space, time, and distance are losing their conventional meanings. Cultural globalization is here, and a global movement of cultural processes and initiatives is underway.

Again, in the cultural arena, vast fields of opportunity open up thanks to online tools. The possibilities are multiplied for disseminating a proposal, an item of knowledge, or a work of art. Against those doomsayers who warn that the Internet is harming culture, I am radically optimistic. The Internet is bringing culture closer to more people, making it more easily and quickly accessible; it is also nurturing the rise of new forms of expression for art and the spread of knowledge. Some would say, in fact, that the Internet is not just a technology, but a cultural artifact in its own right.

In addition to its impact on culture itself, the Internet is enormously beneficial for innovation, which brings progress in all fields of endeavor-the creation of new goods, services, and ideas, the advance of knowledge and society, and increasing well-being.

The Internet and Personal Relationships

The Internet has also changed the way we interact with our family, friends, and life partners. Now everyone is connected to everyone else in a simpler, more accessible, and more immediate way; we can conduct part of our personal relationships using our laptops, smart phones, and tablets.

The benefits of always-online immediate availability are highly significant. I would find a long-distance relationship with my life partner or my family unthinkable without the communication tools that the network of networks provides me with. I'm living in Madrid, but I can stay close to my brother in California. For me, that is the key plus of the Internet: keeping in touch with the people who really matter to me.

As we have seen, the Internet revolution is not just technological; it also operates at a personal level, and throughout the structure of society. The Internet makes it possible for an unlimited number of people to communicate with one another freely and easily, in an unrestricted way.

Just a century ago, this was unimaginable. An increasing number of couples come together, stay together, or break up with the aid-or even as a consequence-of social communication tools. There are even apps and social networks out there that are purposely designed to help people get together for sex.

Of course, when compared to face-to-face communication, online communication is severely limited in the sense impressions it can convey (an estimated 60 to 70 percent of human communication takes place nonverbally), which can lead to misunderstandings and embarrassing situations-no doubt quite a few relationships have floundered as a result. I think the key is to be genuine, honest, and real at all times, using all the social media tools and their many advantages. Let's just remember that a liar and a cheat online is a liar and a cheat offline too.

The Internet and Social and Political Activism

Even before the emergence of social media, pioneering experiments took place in the political sphere-like Essembly, a project I was involved in. We started to create a politically themed platform to encourage debate and provide a home for social and political causes; but the social networks that have later nurtured activism in a new way were not as yet in existence.

Research has shown that young people who voice their political opinions on the Internet are more inclined to take part in public affairs. The better informed a citizen is, the more likely they will step into the polling booth, and the better they will express their political liberties. The Internet has proved to be a decisive communication tool in the latest election campaigns. It is thanks to the Internet that causes in the social, welfare, ideological, and political arenas have been spoken up for and have won the support of other citizens sharing those values-in many cases, with a real impact on government decision making.

The Internet and Consumer Trends

New technologies increase the speed of information transfer, and this opens up the possibility of "bespoke" shopping. The Internet offers an immense wealth of possibilities for buying content, news, and leisure products, and all sorts of advantages arise from e-commerce, which has become a major distribution channel for goods and services. You can book airline tickets, get a T-shirt from Australia, or buy food at an online grocery store. New applications support secure business transactions and create new commercial opportunities.

In this setting, it is the consumer who gains the upper hand, and the conventional rules and methods of distribution and marketing break down. Consumers' access to information multiplies, and their reviews of their experience with various products and services take center stage. Access to product comparisons and rankings, user reviews and comments, and recommendations from bloggers with large followings have shaped a new scenario for consumer behavior, retail trade, and the economy in general.

The Internet and the Economy

The Internet is one of the key factors driving today's economy. No one can afford to be left behind. Even in a tough macroeconomic framework, the Internet can foster growth, coupled with enhanced productivity and competitiveness.

The Internet provides opportunities for strengthening the economy: How should we tackle them? While Europe-and Spain specifically-are making efforts to make the best possible use of the Internet, there are areas in which their approach needs to improve. Europe faces a major challenge, and risks serious failure if it lets the United States run ahead on its own. The European Commission, in its "Startup Manifesto," suggests that the Old World be more entrepreneur-friendly-the proposal is backed by companies like Spotify and Tuenti. Europe lacks some of the necessary know-how. We need to improve in financial services and in data privacy, moving past the obsolete regulatory framework we now have and making a bid to achieve a well-connected continent with a single market for 4G mobile connections. We need to make it easier to hire talent outside each given country.

The use of e-commerce should be encouraged among small and medium-sized enterprises so that growth opportunities can be exploited more intensely. Following the global trend of the Internet, companies should internalize their online business. And much more emphasis should be placed on new technologies training in the academic and business spheres.

Modern life is global, and Spain is competing against every other country in the world. I do not believe in defeatism or victim culture. Optimism should not translate into callousness, but I sincerely believe that if you think creatively, if you find a different angle, if you innovate with a positive attitude and without fear of failure, then you can change things for the better. Spain needs to seize the moment to reinvent itself, grasping the opportunities offered up by the online world. We need to act, take decisions, avoid "paralysis through analysis." I sometimes feel we are too inclined to navel-gazing: Spain shuts itself off, fascinated with its own contradictions and local issues, and loses its sense of perspective. Spain should open up to the outside, use the crisis as an opportunity to do things differently, in a new way-creating value, underlining its strengths, aspiring to be something more.

In the United States, for instance, diving headfirst into a personal Internet-related startup is regarded as perfectly normal. I'm glad to see that this entrepreneurial spirit is beginning to take hold here as well. I believe in working hard, showing perseverance, keeping your goals in view, surrounding yourself with talent, and taking risks. No risk, no success. We live in an increasingly globalized world: of course you can have a Spain-based Internet startup, there are no frontiers.

We need to take risks and keep one step ahead of the future. It is precisely the most disruptive innovations that require radical changes in approach and product, which might not even find a market yet ready for them-these are the areas providing real opportunities to continue being relevant, to move forward and "earn" the future, creating value and maintaining leadership. It is the disruptive changes that enable a business, product, or service to revolutionize the market-and, particularly in the technology sector, such changes are a necessity.

The Future of Social Communications, Innovation, Mobile Technologies, and Total Connectivity in Our Lives

The future of social communications will be shaped by an always-online culture. Always online is already here and will set the trend going forward. Total connectivity, the Internet you can take with you wherever you go, is growing unstoppably. There is no turning back for global digitalization.

Innovation is the driving force of growth and progress, so we need to shake up entrenched processes, products, services, and industries, so that all of us together-including established businesses, reacting to their emerging competitors-can move forward together.

Innovation is shaping and will continue to shape the future of social communications. It is already a reality that Internet connections are increasingly mobile. A survey we conducted in early 2013 in partnership with Ipsos found that 94 percent of Tuenti users aged 16 to 35 owned cell phones, 84 percent of users connected to the Internet using their phones, and 47 percent had mobile data subscriptions for connecting to the Internet. A total of 74 percent of users reported connecting to the Internet from their phone on a daily basis, while 84 percent did so at least weekly. Only 13 percent did not use their phones to connect to the Internet, and that percentage is decreasing every day.

Mobile Internet use alters the pattern of device usage; the hitherto familiar ways of accessing the Internet are changing too. The smartphone activities taking up the most time (over three hours a day) include instant messaging (38%), social media use (35%), listening to music (24%), and web browsing (20%). The activities taking up the least time (under five minutes a day) are: SMS texting (51%), watching movies (43%), reading and writing e-mail (38%), and talking on the phone (32%). Things are still changing.

Smartphones are gaining ground in everyday life. Many of the purposes formerly served by other items now involve using our smartphones. Some 75 percent of young people reported having replaced their MP3 player with their phone, 74 percent use their phone as an alarm clock, 70 percent use it as their camera, and 67 percent use it as their watch.

We have been observing these shifts for a while, which is why we decided to reinvent ourselves by placing smartphones at the heart of our strategy. I want to use this example as a showcase of what is happening in the world of social communication and the Internet in general: mobile connectivity is bringing about a new revolution. Tuenti is no longer just a social network, and social media as a whole are becoming more than just websites. The new Tuenti provides native mobile apps for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Phone, as well as the Firefox OS app and the mobile version of the website, m.tuenti.com. Tuenti is now a cross-platform service that lets users connect with their friends and contacts from wherever they may be, using their device of choice. A user with a laptop can IM in real time with a user with a smartphone, and switch from one device to another without losing the thread of the conversation. The conversations are in the cloud, so data and contacts are preserved independently of the devices being used. This means the experience has to be made uniform across platforms, which sometimes involves paring down functionalities, given the processing and screen size limitations of mobile devices. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and so on are all evolving to become increasingly cross-platform experiences. But Tuenti is the first social network that has also developed its own Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO)-the company is an Internet service provider over the mobile network. Tuenti is an MVNO with a social media angle, and this may be the future path of telecommunications.

Social media are evolving to become something more, and innovation must be their hallmark if they are to continue being relevant. Tuenti now embraces both social communications and telecom services provision, offering value added by letting you use the mobile app free of charge and without using up your data traffic allowance, even if you have no credit on your prepaid card-this is wholly revolutionary in the telecom sector. The convergence of social media with more traditional sectors is already bringing about a new context for innovation, a new arena for the development and growth of the Internet.

Just about everything in the world of the Internet still lies ahead of us, and mobile communications as we know them must be reinvented by making them more digital. The future will be shaped by innovation converging with the impact of mobility. This applies not just to social media but to the Internet in general, particularly in the social communications field. I feel that many people do not understand what we are doing and have no idea of the potential development of companies like ours at the global level. Right now, there may be somebody out there, in some corner of the world, developing the tool that will turn the Internet upside down all over again. The tool that will alter our day-to-day life once more. Creating more opportunities, providing new benefits to individuals, bringing more individual and collective well-being. Just ten years ago, social media did not exist; in the next ten years, something else radically new will emerge. There are many areas in which products, processes, and services can be improved or created afresh. The future is brimming with opportunities, and the future of the Internet has only just begun.

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How the Internet Has Changed Everyday Life | OpenMind

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The Internet has dramatically revolutionized many different fields. It has become a global means of communication in our everyday lives.

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