I was introduced to moonshot thinking at the Google for Work event in Chicago today on October 1, 2014. It challenges people to make something 10x better instead of 10% incremental Improvement by way of solving a huge problem with a radical solution that applies breakthrough technology. Watch this inspiring video. Read more about it at https://www.solveforx.com/.
The following is a partial transcript of the video:
[Google – Moonshot Thinking] Source: LYBIO.net
The actual moonshot is wonderful, inspirational, poetic, beautiful, involved great technical challenges, genuine heroism, it brought the world together. But think about the Polynesian islander on the dug out canoe, deciding one day they were going to go that way. No one had ever been that way before, no one even knew if there was anything that way before, it was amazing and it changed the world.…
Everyone else in the world is working on that next ten percent. If you can be the one that delivers that ten times improvement, you have a chance to really change things.
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You need a lot of courage in this work and you need a lot of persistence. One of the things that is really critical is not only having the courage to keep trying every day or thinking big. Even if you don’t really 100 percent believe it’s possible, like, you might think this might be possible, have the courage to try, that’s how the greatest things have happened.
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“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
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I think our ambitions are a glass ceiling in what we can accomplish.
When you find your passion, you are unstoppable. You can make amazing things happen, it’s been true throughout all of history.
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When Kennedy said that we will put a man on the moon, it’s about the fact that he said we don’t know how to do this yet, and we are gonna to do it anyway, and that sends chills up everybody’s spines, because if that happens, what couldn’t we do?