**When we mention Japan, I would think of comic and animation.
NARUTO
[ :D hehe..... this is one of my all time fav. An amazing animation by MASASHI KISHIMOTO]
But .......,there is also one important fact I know about Japan .... that is they are known higly for their recognised skills in invention and innovation.
Walkman, pocket calculator,heated toilet seats were consumer products that came successfully after many failures made. Just like Thomas Edison, whom made success out of failure
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."-Thomas Edison
http://quotations.about.com/od/stillmorefamouspeople/a/ThomasEdison3.htm
Heated toilet seats
Walkman
(SOURCE: GOOGLE IMAGE)
FROM http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/tech/article/japans-gadget-failures-the-futures-that-never-happened/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20400239,we could see that the Japanese preservere in what they do.They do not give up and look for various solutions to encounter the problems.Such fact is seen when they inovate from failed products such as the walking-toast and tv-shaped radio to many new inventions that consume wide area of market across the globe.
I have learnt that not all inventions bring innovation. Just as the product shown above, although it is an invention from creative ideas, purposes and holds value, it is not enough to be an innovative product. An innovative product should be an implementation of something new whereas invention is the creation of something that has never been made before and recognised as a unique insight.
By creating new ideas, we display creativity,but there is no innovation until it gets implemented.Risk has to be taken by individual for his/her creative idea to turned into an innovation.An invention might be a product that has never existed before.So, every invention is an innovation.But not every innovation is invention.
HERE ARE SOME FAILED JAPANESE INVENTIONS:
UMBRELLA HEADBAND
VERTIGO SOOTHING GLASSES
COCKROACH SWATTING SLIPPERS
Failure is a necessary part of the innovation process because from failure comes learning, the ability to adapt,improvise, and the building of new conceptual and physical models through an iterative learning process. Almost all innovations are the result of prior learning from failures.
Henceforth, dun let failure get to you!!
##Be more flexible in what we are doing. If we do so, then we could accept any failure attempt by innovating ideas from many previous failure.Invention is a skill that anyone could hav. LOL.... but when it comes to being innovative, it depends on newly,fresh ideas that could affect the world in many ways :)
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