Kirk Kirkpatrick Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. To fight this, keep your dissatisfaction index high and break with tradition. Don't be too quick to accept the way things are being done. Question whether there's a better way.
New ideas flow in like water.
We must not lose track of the fact that inventions as such, important inventions, are made by individuals and almost invariably by individuals with very limited means. Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come. When you can do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.