Often you will hear someone acknowledge that they read a particular book and then applied some of their newfound knowledge to a project. This is a powerful reminder that the best work we accomplish is frequently a result of being inspired by someone else.
You shouldn’t be ashamed of drawing inspiration from other sources and applying them to your work. At the heart of it, that’s the crux of innovation. Innovation is the collective grasp for “next,” and it’s always built on the work of those who went before.
