WHY MUST YOU THINK OF YOURSELF AS AN INNOVATOR?

Do you consider yourself to be an innovator? The answer to this question will determine how good an innovator you are. Your self-identity as an innovator holds an important key to your innovation results.

What is self-identity?

Self-identity is a set of self-concepts that help you live life with ease. Psychologists use the term self-schema to refer to a set of memories that are stable and last for a long time. These memories help people develop generalization about themselves, their capabilities and beliefs.

For example, you may think of yourself as a good cook. This belief would be one self-schema. Of course, you can also be a great salesperson and an excellent husband. You can have multiple self-schemas. They allow you to make sense of your self and your experiences.

You can have multiple self-schemas. They allow you to make sense of your self and your experiences.

At the same time, you may also have some negative self-schemas. You may consider yourself as a technologically challenged person. Or you may think yourself as not musically inclined. In short, you have multiple schemas which allow you to understand various aspects of yourself.

Impact of self-identity

The self-schemas play a critical role in your day to day actions, behaviors, and pursuits. Positive self-schemas in a domain makes you get involved more in that domain. So as a good cook you will watch cooking shows, will gravitate towards cookbooks in bookstores and pay attention to what is served at a party or a restaurant. Obviously, it will give you enjoyment in several activities.

At the same time, a negative self-schema in a particular domain will make you avoid some activities. If you consider yourself technically challenged, you will not try to tinker with electronics and computer code. You will stay away from the home networking. This belief will help you avoid negative feelings.

In short, your self-identity will make you focus on some things and ignore other things.

Innovator Self Identity

If you consider yourself as an innovator, it will obviously play a significant role in your activities. It will help you recall your past innovation successes easily. It will also help you focus on potential innovation ideas in your environment. As a result, you are more likely to find innovation ideas.

By holding a self-identity of an innovator, you will set innovation goals. You will believe innovation goals are possible for you to achieve. As a result, you will actively work towards such goals.

By holding a self-identity of an innovator, you will set innovation goals.

An important consequence of this self-identity would be that you will look out for innovation tools. This focus will help you will acquire an arsenal of ideas, insights, methods, and practices. As a result, your innovation capability will improve over time.

How will self-identity transform you?

Self-transformation is a radical change in goals, capabilities and self-identity. As you reinforce your identity, it will help you improve your skills and make you seek more ambitious innovation goals. As all three of them change over time, you will achieve a transformation. You will transform into a highly efficient and a more powerful innovator.

In short by holding and reinforcing the self-identity of an innovator, you will become a highly effective innovator. The stronger your identity as an innovator the more likely you will become a better innovator.

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Are you an innovator? How strongly do you hold that identity?