The Importance of Promoting Innovation

All of the eight values of free expression have their own importance that work with each other to help provide citizens the freedom to express themselves how they want. Of these eight, the most inspiring of them is the promotion of innovation.

Promoting innovation creates a community where citizens will be more motivated, creative, and encourage them to fulfill their ideas in unique and interesting ways. Without this value, many creative forms of technology would never have happened, let alone been thought about in the first place. Take something like virtual reality for example, a technology that is changing the world today and shaping the way that we can experience different things all around the world. Would that even exist without promoting innovation? Without the protection that allows people to come up with these ideas and suggest or act upon them, our society would be nowhere near as advanced as it is today.

Without promoting innovation, our society would also not nearly be as unique as it is today. So many unique people, with unique dreams that can follow through with what they want to do and not be held out from it. Anyone can pursue a career they want to follow or a dream that they wish to achieve becuase their ability to do so is protected within the values of free expression.

This is incredibly inspiring for me because I AM someone who chose to follow their dreams. I love sports and wanted to do something with sports media, whether that be a broadcaster or an analyst. No one ever told me that I wasn't allowed to do that and that trying to follow that idea would be foolish. I was encouraged to pursue what I wanted to do and become my own unique voice in the sports media business, and it also motivated me to pursue that dream even harder because of that encouragement. To me, this makes the promotion of innovation incredibly inspiring because of how much it can encourage people who may not be sure if what they're doing is the right path.