A short YouTube monologue (Gary Mottershead) aimed at entrepreneurs: innovation requires three prerequisites — time to think, mental space, and energy — and internal conflicts (across home, businesses, roles) drain the energy and mental space needed to be innovative. The speaker emphasizes deciding the role you will play to reduce internal conflict and preserve cognitive resources for innovation.
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As an entrepreneur, we always have different parts of our life, but whenever we do that, we also have conflict and internal conflict. And maybe your home or it's your home or to your businesses. And if you have multiple businesses, which some people do. To me, it's really important you decide the role that you're going to play, because you are the same person. You're all in your own body. You're all in one brain. So you really want to be one with yourself as much as possible. And so what happens is, if you're going to. We're talking about innovation. If you're going to be innovative, I believe there's three things that you require. You need to have time, be able to think about things. You need space, and I call it mental space. And you need the energy, so you can't be tired, you can't be totally busy, busy all the time, and you can't be totally tied up in your mind. So you need the time and space and the energy. And if you're a conflict, that takes more energy and it takes more space in your brain to do that.