There was always the view that innovation can come about by people not knowing that their solution can’t be right.
There is the classic (true) story of the man who walked into a lecture late and copying down the problem on the board, solving it at home that night and dropping it on his lecturers desk in the morning only to be called later by his excited lecturer telling him he had solved an “impossible” equation. He just didn’t know the problem was unsolvable so he gave it a go and solved it.
I was recently in a meeting with a few older people who I was consulting for and they asked me for some things that I knew couldn’t be done with the software available. I duly told them that and there it ended. Now I sit and think, wait, maybe they weren’t wrong, maybe it CAN be done… We shouldn’t discount someones opinion just because we think they don’t have any idea how a program works. They might be able to offer an insight that we haven’t thought of because we haven’t taken time to step away from the problem and view it from the ‘outside’.
It often takes a change of perspective to really come up with a solution.
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