Innovation Mirror

Innovation is a feeling - an idea, which drives us to create and drives us to new places, intellectually, culturally, and physically.

To me, innovation is the drive to things differently and to push the bounds of what is possible. To innovate is to push yourself and your ideas to new bounds in an attempt to add something to the world around you.

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