Ch. 7 & 8
I connected with the line "Because the place you arrive at is not what you expected when you started out does not mean your journey has failed" (p. 90 E-book) because I have seen many people, including myself, get discouraged and give up on a certain something because we did not get the outcome we had hoped to get. We tend to regret ever doing it and we're filled with so much resentment towards the people who encouraged us to do it because the time and effort and everything else we invested seems to just go to waste. It's kind of encouraging to learn that even social innovators do not sometimes get to their 'actual destinations'. There are no perfect people or perfect projects or a fixed address to success., but if we don't try, we risk not realizing our potential (p. 83 and 89 E-book).
In chapter 7 we are told to "avoid falling prey to and being seduced by success" (p. 85 E-book). But what if your attraction to success is the only driving force that motivates you to do something like social innovation, what could be done about it?