To be innovative is the biggest craze of the people of 21st century. Everybody wants to be innovative. The educated, well placed and good earning individuals are searching and devoting valuable time for innovation. But very few have knowledge of its internal ingredients. But the secret lies somewhere else. I firmly believe that there is an urgent need to unlearn past to become innovative.

I get surprise when people enter in domain of innovation through historically irrelevant characters and stories. The things which have been researched heavily, written extensively and propagated mercilessly have no innovation left in it. We need to look into more dynamic domain for innovation.

Unlearning past is tricky like learning must been just three generations back. Today we might feel comfortable to decide about learning needs but remain puzzled to find unlearning needs. But without framing unlearning needs, you can never dream to be creative or innovative.

Deepak Chopra rightly says that to create something new, the old has to die. When we are constantly recreating ourselves at material, intellectual and personal levels, what stops us to unlearn those irrelevant characters of history?

To create is to bring into being or existence. And to create something new, we have to die to what is. Something has to dies for something new to emerge.

“Every death is an opportunity for a quantum leap of creativity. Through death, we recreate ourselves at every level; the material level of the body-mind, the intellect, the personality. All of these have to die in order to recreate ourselves.” says Deepak Chopra.

Deepak says that with every death we store the wisdom of our experiences since the beginning of time and take quantum leaps of creativity so that we can look at ourselves again as if for the first time. I disagree with him. The things which are available today in 21st century were never there in the history of human kind. How can we store wisdom? Which wisdom is he talking about? The old wisdom which are stored have to be unlearned to be creative. And that is the challenge of innovation.

Deepak says many beautiful stances for unlearning needs but he remains quite away from reality. In biology there is a term called apoptosis, which means programmed cellular death, in the absence of apoptosis, cells forget to die and this condition is called cancer. Cancer cells don’t know how to die and in their quest for immortality, they kill the host body upon which they are dependent for their life.

Lack of unlearning is like developing cancers. Individuals, societies or nation which do not unlearn basically develop cancer and will die in the time to come. UPA governments under Sonia with phobia of Gandhi, Karat with socialism or BJP with nobleness are like a cancer for India. The cancer is going to kill India. Gandhi and communism are like cancer to the growing society. These cancerous ideas have to die from Indian minds to be innovative. These cancerous elements have to die for India to survive and grow.

Instead of focusing our mind, time and energy on irrelevant histories and characters, we need to let them die for recreating a new India. Innovation will emerge then. A new India with confident outlook will appear then.