Learn Innovation Skills With The Best Examples - learn apart

Learn Innovation Skills With The Best Examples - learn apart

 Any innovator is always curious.  He seeks answers to questions.  Instead of just asking questions to ask questions, he keeps his curiosity of knowing to understand the problems around him and to explore opportunities.  If you also want to advance yourself as an innovator, then you have to be curious.  .  .

 Let's start with an incident that had a huge impact on Gandhi Ji and in a way, Gandhi's socio-political journey started from that.


On June 7, 1893, Mahatma Gandhi was thrown out of the first-class coach of the train at Peter Maritzburg, South Africa.  He was going from Durban to Pretoria on a first-class ticket to meet his client.


While he was traveling in the first-class compartment, a European man called the railway officer and asked the first-class compartment to remove a man who looked like a porter in his sight.


Gandhi Ji had a valid ticket and therefore refused to withdraw from the first-class coach.  When he did not get out, he was thrown out of the train.

 He had to spend the whole night at the station trembling in the cold.  He was therefore thrown out of the first-class coach at that time.


Because then only Europeans were allowed to travel in first-class coaches.  He was certainly not the first person in South Africa to face discrimination on the basis of nationality.

Reluctantly, it was accepted by the people as a way of life under the dominion of a strong British Empire.  Gandhi Ji refused to accept the discrimination prevalent in South Africa and he questioned it.

This question resulted in more ideas and this unfair treatment of discrimination in South Africa attract attention, he started challenging the status by raising questions through the press.


The most important part of this whole incident is to ask questions challenging the practice of discrimination by Gandhi Ji.


If he had not raised the question and accepted it as a reality of life in South Africa, we might not have seen Mahatma Gandhi's rise as a leader and


we would have missed his valuable guidance in India's freedom movement.  This is not the only incident.


Throughout his life, Gandhi Ji also questioned some of the distortions of Indian society, such as the prevalent practices of mistreating people of lower castes or the justification of violence to achieve freedom.

Useful for you:

Questioning is a skill and you can develop it only by starting asking questions.

Yes, do not just ask questions to ask, but also start asking questions to understand the problems around you and explore new opportunities.

To start learning, ask yourself questions to understand yourself better, ask questions to better understand your problems, and find new solutions and opportunities.

Always remember:

Questioning is a very important skill for innovation and throughout history, great inventors and leaders have innovated by questioning common sense.

It is also a skill and can be learned through regular practice.  You too can learn it and teach it to others.