What is innovation? Innovation means doing what others have never done, taking the road that others have never taken, daring to break the mindset and open up new markets and new fields. In this vast world, there are many ordinary people among all kinds of people. When people admire their current achievements, they should see the innovation behind success. So how do we innovate?

First of all, innovation needs to have a sense of advance. Professor Huang Hanqing said: "Only by taking the lead in setting an example, winning by surprise, constantly innovating new systems, new products and new markets and overwhelming competitors can enterprises be in an invincible position." In fact, this sentence is equally reasonable, not only in enterprises, but also in daily life and small things around us. In Harvard Town, Noe, some children often spend their spare time on the train to buy popcorn. A boy aged 10 joined the team. Besides selling it on the train, he also mixed cream and salt into popcorn to make it more delicious. Of course, his popcorn sells better than other children-because he knows how to make it better than others. This boy is Paul Calvin, the founder of Motorola. Isn't the secret of his success to get ahead of others? Isn't his innovative spirit the premise of his success? Therefore, innovation needs to have a sense of advance.

Secondly, innovation needs imitation and improvement. Innovation needs imitation, not to say that it is completely copied, but to improve according to the experience of predecessors and through their own thinking. Therefore, innovation should not completely abandon tradition, but sublate and inherit it. When talking about innovation, Chen Dongsheng, the leader of the youngest national life insurance company in China and the current chairman and CEO of Taikang Life Insurance Co., Ltd., said: "Many people flaunt illegality and act according to their own will is innovation. As a result, there are too many cases. I think it is better to honestly follow the gourd ladle." His words are exactly what he summed up on the road to success. At the beginning, he was an ordinary person with a doctorate in economics from Wuhan University. Although Guardian's three-year pioneering course has successfully transformed him from a scholar to a businessman, he is standing at the gate of 1996 insurance industry, and Chen Dongsheng is just a student without any practical experience, so he decided to copy the advanced practices accumulated by foreign insurance giants in the past few years. In a few years, Chen Dongsheng visited 2 1 world-class multinational companies. Chen Dongsheng brought back the company structure, marketing model, decoration style and service facilities from abroad. Imitation made Taikang stand at a high starting point and Chen Dongsheng stand at the commanding height of China insurance industry. So sometimes, innovation is a small step forward on the shoulders of predecessors, and this small step is your progress, your innovation and your characteristics.

However, innovation does not mean trying blindly, but also pursuing the law. Kai-fu Lee, a famous contemporary writer, once said, "Innovation is not important, but useful innovation". A very philosophical fable: a prey has been caught and the lion hasn't eaten it yet. If the fox wants to eat, he has to think about it: why doesn't the lion eat? Is it because you are not hungry, the prey is too small to eat, or the prey is poisonous to eat at all? If the lion thinks the prey is too small to eat, the fox can go up and have a full meal, otherwise the consequence can only be poisoned or eaten by the lion. Doesn't this little fable say that bad innovation is digging your own grave? Therefore, in the process of our innovation, we must follow the law, do what we can, and not blindly.

So innovation is not simple, but there are two key points: one is not limited by the achievements of others, and the other is not afraid of making mistakes. In today's law of the jungle society, only if we want to stay ahead of others, stay ahead of others and adapt to changes, can we grasp the opportunities and be invincible.