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title: "Innovation Is Rebellion in Action"
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# Innovation Is Rebellion in Action

![Innovation Is Rebellion in Action - Being Unique by Jim Carroll](https://jimcarroll.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/being-unique-innovation-rebellion-sketch-map.jpg)

Every map of the future starts as a scribble that breaks the existing map’s rules.

Rebellion is not chaos, it is direction nobody has drawn yet. I explore this idea at length in *Being Unique: Why the Rebels, the Odd Ones Out, and the Crazy Ones Always Win!*

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