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The Power of Small Innovations
Mehmet SARICI
Most people think that innovations are hard to make and being an innovator is hard. But that is simply not true. Making innovations is actually pretty easy for the biggest part. Look around you! There are a lot of things that you see, which are quite normal and not interesting to you. The thing about these things is that they were actually thought to be impossible as in the case of Wi-Fi. It was invented in the 1990 and nobody before that thought something like that was possible. Or we can take smartphones; they were invented just 20 years ago. And fun fact: The first mobile phone weighed more than 1 kilogram. And those are some innovations that we couldn’ t live without right now. but it is also the small things like plastic cups or the paperclips, so it becomes obvious that ordinary people like you and me make these innovations and even get rich by selling them. Now you can also think about some everyday problems, write them down and brainstorm solutions to them. And maybe you will find a million-dollar idea and will be an innovative entrepreneur.
You may now think: All those couldn’ t have been easy to make! But let me prove my point with another example. You all probably know Tupperware. It’ s the best and biggest company that produces kitchen gadgets and storage containers. Their products are so good that you can use the same one for your whole life and it will still work perfectly. What I really mean is that it’ s just plastic. And it still changes millions of people’ s lives. That means that just small innovations like that can change so many people’ s lives.
Innovation isn’ t just something that’ s really big, which needs millions of dollars of investments and thousands of workers,