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Sadie McCallum Shows Us Why Invention is for Everybody
The beauty of innovation is that there is no standard “DNA” of an innovator. In fact, the more unique your experiences, the better suited you are to innovate in remarkable ways.
The young inventor Sadie McCallum is no stranger to facing obstacles and inventing her way to revolutionary solutions. At 11 years old, Sadie is innovating her way through the unique challenges she faces as she navigates the world with Cerebral Palsy; a condition the impacts her motor skills.
As an advocate and inventor, Sadie shines a spotlight on why we need to encourage and invite innovators from every background. So, let’s get to know her a little better with this phenomenal video from A Plus.
Why It Matters
Being a great inventor or innovator doesn’t mean having the best Ph.D. or most accolades. It doesn’t even require state of the art laboratories. Great innovators take the unique problems they face and the experiences in their lives and fix them the way only they know how.
This is why we need to empower all kinds of voices in a room. Why it’s important that we think about who sits around every brainstorming session. Because the more diverse the range of experiences is that we include in the process of innovation, the more problems we solve.
Adding more unique voices to the room doesn’t shrink the pie for others, it makes the pie bigger for us all.
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