How to Think New: Leave Your Industry on Purpose

The Innovation Philosophie Podcast · Oct 22, 2026 · 38m · transcript

Co-host Pat Villaceran, creator of INNOVATIONLABS and founder of CITY JAM, joins Nathan Reardon to explain why most new ideas end up looking exactly like the rest of the market. Drawing on Pat's own daily idea routine, they show how boredom, analog time, reading, writing and meditation train the brain to think new, and why the executor, not the idea, is the real differentiator. Their message: most people don't have an idea problem, they have an input distance problem, so leave your industry on purpose.

Chapters

00:00 Intro: how do you actually think new?

01:02 Boredom is a luxury

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