Do you agree with me that most of the innovations always face negativity in the beginning?

And why do you think there are only 5% successful people in the world?

As I generally Google before writing any content, I did the same before writing this post and got a piece of information.

“Innovators have to understand the potential and perceived negative impacts of the change they plan to introduce.” — Unrisd.org

It is true. I will share some real examples in the latter parts of the post.

Let’s get started.

Why Innovation Always Faces Negativity?

There are many principles around it through nature. Whenever an innovation takes place, it brings a change with it. Moreover, change is always hard at the beginning. And the majority has a fixed mind, and they won’t accept new things easily.

One concept from physics is static friction that the magnitude of the opposing force is more when you want to change the inertia of a body.

In real life, you can compare it with negativity. In the beginning, negativity is more. Enough of theory and thoughts, I will give some real examples.

Insurance industry:

In the initial years, people used to trash insurance agents ss the agents speak about protection to the family in situations of mishappening to the head of the family. However, in the present, it is one of the reputable professions, and those who are in the insurance industry from the initial days got name, fame and success.

eCommerce industry:

When amazon started, people were sceptical about online delivery stuff. Forget about the beginning. Even before ten years when you hear about online shopping, what comes to your mind? It may be a fraud! Exactly. But where is amazon now? It made Jeff Bezos the richest person for some time in 2021.

Do you want one more example? Let’s talk about real estate.

Real Estate:

Till 1950, there were no proper documents of the land, buying or selling. And you know what’s happening now. Many wrong things happened, and you can also imagine what sort of things might have taken place in this sector. Even Govt came up with RERA, which has complete info about an agent. So realtors can’t mislead the people.

Even if you take all of these industries, they passed all phases; negative, positive, growing. They are in a competitive phase now.

And the answer is simple for why 5% of people only are successful. It is because they understand the potential impacts of the innovation and stick to their vision.

You may be thinking about why I mentioned this in this post. As you know, I am into network marketing. I wanted to share more about it, and this is my contribution towards that purpose. And the good news is when I wrote an article on network marketing, the industry was in a negative phase. But its positive phase has started due to some rules brought by central govt. I am going to write about it the next Tuesday.

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I shared about only the real businesses till now. But even some movies were a flop when they were released, but they got a good response from the people later. So, you need to ask yourself, if you feel something is negative, “is it negative, or you are not able to envision its true identity?”

What do you think? Don’t you agree that innovation always faces negativity? Let me know by commenting below. It means a lot for a writer.