Innovating emerges from an amalgam of disciplines that no one had put together in quite the same way before. How did that happen? You must have stepped out of your discipline at some point. You might as well resolve to do that from the outset.
Impact does not stem from the parts you have, how new they are, what people say, or how many of them fit your preferred archetype. It stems from whether the community that experiences the problem you are solving is able to accomplish new things after you’ve solved it.
Only impact matters: people can’t fathom a world with the problem you erased.
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