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Innolation
Your personal travel guide to navigate life
We all love to travel for holidays, but do we enjoy life’s journey?
Navigating life can be challenging. There are no secrets on how to do this best and without one-size-fits-all solutions we have to find our own way. While we have to embrace this challenge, we also want to enjoy life, but we often get stuck in a vicious circle. We live in automatic pilot mode from the moment our Monday morning alarm goes off. Either craving for the weekend, or we continue the rat race, the endless chase of achieving more and barely catching anything. We wanted to enjoy our journey, but we got lost, and now we wonder how we ended up here.
Getting back on track takes time and life has its obstacles. To find your way back, you have to start somewhere. If you want to take a shortcut and only believe in life hacks, this book is not for you.
Change is difficult but doable. This book is your personal travel guide, your compass to help you navigate life.
If we can see the journey as the destination, we will appreciate and enjoy our own adventure!
What you will learn from
Reading this book
Learn to live a balanced life with an open mindset that empowers you to enjoy your journey while aiming to achieve your goals.
The Innolation guide is part explanation and part execution, because knowing is not the same as doing. Innolation, just like innovation, only happens with action. The book contains 8 key concepts for inspiration, 24 key lessons to take in, and 40 questions that make you reflect and come into action. Just like the Lonely Planet, this guide shows you different routes, but you still decide how and where you want to travel. With Innolation you start your own journey of continuous self-discovery. It is about enjoying this process, not only the results. Simply embracing life’s journey as your destination.
Through stories, examples and questions you will discover yourself:
- How change is inevitable and it is never too late to change
- How to determine your own definition of success
- How to live life at your own pace
- How to make decisions and set priorities
- How to change habits and try new things
- How you need both ups and downs
- How to deal with randomness and uncertainty
- How to stay curious and open
Will you travel and follow your own journey?
Innolation = Innovation + Revelation
Innovation = the introduction of new things, ideas, ways of doing something.
Revelation = an enlightening surprise Together they mean to reach an enlightened surprise by introducing new ways of doing something and experimenting with new ideas.
Innolation is about being curious and open, not only to yourself, but to the people around you and the world at large. It is about enjoying the process, not only results. Simply embracing and enjoying life’s journey as your destination.
More about
the Author
Remco van Riet has experimented all his life with building new habits and seeing every experience as a complementary lesson for self-reflection. He incorporates various sources of inspiration into his daily life. And through following his own journey at an early age, he often chooses the unusual path, leading to a life full of surprises.
Greatly inspired by traveling the world, he stays constantly open to new cultures, ideas, and life lessons. His unbounded curiosity is at the root of this all.
With a Master’s degree in Innovation Management from Erasmus University Rotterdam and with over ten years of working experience (in both start-ups and corporates) within this field, he strongly believes that innovation within companies is no different than personal innovation because it is people that drive change.
He argues that innovation principles can not only help companies improve but that they can actually guide every individual to live a fulfilling life as long as you enjoy the process and embrace your journey. It is the reason that he has also coached many students on how to follow their own journey at the start of their career.
Combining his innovation experience on both a personal and business level with a natural curiosity for change and a strong interest in other topics such as history, philosophy, and psychology, he makes a brand-new connection between innovation and revelation, redefined as Innolation. Innolation is a way of living where experimentation leads to a life full of surprises.
Many roads may lead you to a destination, but life is not about reaching a specific destination. Following your own path and deciding how to travel are both part of an adventure called the journey of life.
Enjoy traveling!
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(Proof)Readers’ comments
Innolation makes difficult life concepts easy to understand, and change very actionable!
- Kemi Adegbokiki
The book is both fun and insightful! With my thoughts all over the place, the book is the perfect guide for my own self-reflection
- Camiel Geryzewski
The guide has made me fall in love with the process
- Christopher Paine
De gids maakt lastige concepten eenvoudig te begrijpen en verandering direct uitvoerbaar!
- Gvantsa Garsevanishvili
Dit boek is fun en inzichtelijk! Het is de perfecte gids voor zelf-reflectie
- Hanno Hoogerdijk
Innolation, een verrassende maar ook confronterende zelfreflectie van je eigen “route”
- Tom de Boef