If I were Queen of the World, I would invite every leader, teacher, influencer to read this book (as well as Ridley's Rational Optimist and The Evolution of Everything.) If we want to create more goodness in the world, what is more important than learning about how goodness is created?
If students learned the wise optimism of Matt Ridley, they would enjoy more happiness, health, wealth, and freedom as well as helping others. With the essential ideas that he teaches, we could more quickly eliminate depression, poverty, class struggle, environmental disasters. We could accelerate the trajectory of progress for all people. While this sounds like an exaggeration, it's not. Rational Optimists (a title of one of Matt's other great books) who are innovative benefit themselves as they benefit others. If everyone understood Ridley's important ideas, more interactions would result in Win-Win solutions, rather than Win-lose situations.
If you want to understand how the world evolves and how to best evolve in the world, Matt Ridley is your author. He puts into elegant words some of the greatest truths of how the world actually works. His insight about the Improbability drive is fun, insightful, and simplicity beyond complexity.
If I sound enthusiastic about Matt Ridley's view of the world, it's an understatement. The ideas that he presents have given me so much hope and a solid sense of how the world works.
In addition to his ability to synthesize ideas into great insights, his writing is so elegant and quotable. Here are just a few of my many favorites from this book.
"The main ingredient in the secret sauce that leads to innovation is freedom. Freedom to exchange, experiment, imagine, invest and fail; freedom from expropriation or restriction by chiefs, priests and thieves; freedom on the part of consumers to reward the innovations they like and reject the ones they do not. Liberals have argued since at least the eighteenth century that freedom leads to prosperity, but I would argue that they have never persuasively found the mechanism, the drive chain, by which one causes the other. Innovation, the infinite improbability drive, is that drive chain, that missing link.
"Innovation is the most important fact about the modern world, but one of the least well understood. It is the reason most people today live lives of prosperity and wisdom compared with their ancestors, the overwhelming cause of the great enrichment of the past few centuries, the simple explanation of why the incidence of extreme poverty is in global freefall for the first time in history: from 50 percent of the world population to 9 percent in my lifetime."
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I bought an extra on to have on hand to give to friends
I was given an advance copy of this book, but I'd already ordered it because I'm always excited to read anything by Matt Ridley. His books had a positive impact on me when I was younger and started wondering how the world really works. In How Innovation Works, Ridley does a wonderfully entertaining deep dive into how the world around us really improves from innovation.I'll be ordering extra copies for friends because like his book The Origin of Virtue, it's a terrific encapsulation of an idea that we'd all be better off understanding.
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Marcelo M. Fremder
É um "must read" para quem quer estar em sintonia com o funcionamento orgânico da natureza humana.
Rezension aus Brasilien vom 26. September 2020
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Naval's Recommendation.
Rezension aus Indien vom 14. April 2021
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Rezension aus Indien vom 14. April 2021
The good thing about this book is that it's so dense in knowledge and information that you've to read it slowly and multiple times. By that I do not mean that it's hard to understand.
In this book Matt emphasized on the difference between invention and innovation.
It's a good read.
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