Every­one has val­ue and is a cre­ative force by virtue of one’s very existence.

As a con­cept, inno­va­tion cuts to the core of what makes the human ani­mal so dis­tinc­tive. Inno­va­tion illus­trates how we, as a species, can cre­ate and prob­lem-solve on such mas­sive scales.

From the moment our ear­li­est ances­tors start­ed fash­ion­ing basic tools from the mate­ri­als around them, we began to shape our envi­ron­ments in ways that allowed us to achieve increas­ing­ly com­plex goals. This urge to improve appears to be hard­wired. Bio­log­i­cal­ly, it is thought that we’ve evolved rel­a­tive­ly lit­tle since we began this jour­ney, but our abil­i­ty to inno­vate has man­aged to take us to the stars.

The more imag­i­na­tive we con­tin­ue to become, the more inven­tive and far-out our inno­va­tions might sub­se­quent­ly be. Future solu­tions to cur­rent chal­lenges are sleep­ing with­in us. By ask­ing per­ti­nent ques­tions, prob­ing com­pelling notions, and per­sis­tent­ly press­ing the lim­its of knowl­edge, we can awak­en the beast of inno­va­tion and har­ness its pow­ers for our ele­vat­ed purposes.

Every­body can inno­vate. All peo­ple have the abil­i­ty to find new and bet­ter ways to solve prob­lems and help one anoth­er live up to our fullest poten­tial. Once all peo­ple have free­dom to do so, we can pre­pare the ground­work for a world that encour­ages the pur­suit of cre­ativ­i­ty across all lay­ers of society.

Inno­va­tion is every­where, it’s always present. Inno­va­tion thrives in open dis­course. And yet, it’s long been clois­tered off in secre­tive labs that demand con­fi­den­tial­i­ty agree­ments in fear of com­pa­nies los­ing their com­pet­i­tive edge.

This cat­a­log is a response to siloed think­ing and behav­ior. Inno­va­tion in the future has be “out­ward” instead of “inward”. Inno­va­tion for every­one requires imple­ment­ing dri­vers to estab­lish a uni­ver­sal base­line sat­is­fy­ing all lay­ers of Maslow’s Hier­ar­chy of Needs.

The more we real­ize every person’s capac­i­ty for inno­va­tion, the more coop­er­a­tion is pos­si­ble between peo­ple. This is a cru­cial com­po­nent for respond­ing to the mon­u­men­tal chal­lenges inten­si­fy­ing before us. We have to demand that this change hap­pen. The more we refuse to change, the more we stick to our unsus­tain­able mod­els of indus­try, the bet­ter chance we have of lead­ing our­selves some­where dystopi­an. We need to strive for big, bold action that will hap­pen fast. This is a piv­otal time to shift course and self-actu­al­ize on an incred­i­ble scale.we look into this pri­ma­ry rela­tion­ship, the clear­er it is that we still have much fur­ther yet to go.