Innovating, like most other activities, is something you can practice and become better at with the right combination of knowledge and the kind of muscle memory that comes from repeating certain tasks—that is, from doing.
Innovating takes doing, practice, and perseverance—which are how your brain has adapted to learn best.
Just like you learned to walk and talk, you can learn to innovate as well
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