At its genesis, no thing about an innovation is new.
Innovations accrue their novelty as you innovate. They are more easily deemed innovations in hindsight than at their beginnings.
It’s only in hindsight they can be judged by how they ultimately empower others—a community—to achieve new things.
If you accept that innovations hardly look new when you begin, you can stop searching for the next earth-shattering idea and instead just start looking around for a way to fix that thing you already suspect is not quite right.
From the book, Innovating: A Doer’s Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong by Luis Perez-Breva