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First steps to embracing innovation

I was reading this amazing piece last night by Professor Baba Shiv from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (find the whole article here) where he discusses that the brain needs to be in a certain mood to accept innovation and new ideas generally. According to him, in times of great stress the brain feels the need to find comfort and it does so in all that's familiar. Exactly like me at this moment in my life.

I have moved to Kingston now, a new town, new places to get food from and a different variety, new means of transport and routes, new people, new uni, new education system, etc..etc..You would think that starting a Masters is stressful enough, but when everything around you is new, no wonder I find comfort in talking to my family or my boyfriend and old friends, in old habits like my tea every day or even in old brands like Fairy, Dove and Cheerios. 

My travelling nature makes me excited about all that is happening right now, but in the same time stressed about a full adaptation to this new environment. Will I be liked by my classmates? Will I do well in school? Will I ever learn my way around the narrow streets of the city centre? We all pose similar questions when we are in these types of situations, and time really does answer them in this case. But from a more scientific point of view, the brain absorbs all the information it finds to turn new into known in order to turn stress into comfort. Comfort slowly becomes boredom or ordinary and that is when a little light turns on in our head saying that it needs novelty, innovation. So you see, boredom can be a good thing if it soon (rather than later) turns into a craving for self-development. 

Of course, as soon as innovation is perceived as too much new, stress joins the playing field again. After all, that's how I moved from Denmark to England in search of the new and better.