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1984 At the 23rd Olympic Games, China shooter Xu Haifeng won the first gold medal of this Olympic Games with a score of 566 rings. He is the first champion winner in the history of China's participation in the Olympic Games, achieving a breakthrough of "zero" gold medal in the history of China Olympic Games.
The result is a breakthrough of 0. The process is that Xu Haifeng constantly improves his shooting skills and adjusts his shooting state. Finally, I showed my best in the Olympic Games and won the championship. Do you think this innovation is iterative?
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French composer Ravel has a song called Polly Lou. This piece of music is a bit strange. You listened to 15 minutes from beginning to end, only to find that it was always the same tune. From its original delicate and almost inaudible music, you hear the melody, and the sound gradually becomes clear, but if you listen carefully, it is still repeating, repeating all the time, and I don't know how many times.
That repetitive song has a magical power and makes me inexplicably excited. This was originally a repetitive song that might make your ears cocoon, but you didn't feel it repeating at all. Every repetition is actually different from the last one. Until finally, the tide of Qiantang River finally came, and you think it will completely drown your feelings.
After listening to this song, I remembered a sentence I read many years ago. The poet Eliot said, "The so-called progress of civilization is nothing more than constantly returning to the original point and starting from the original point to create a seemingly brand-new civilization."
Innovation is from 0 to 1, and iteration is from 1 to n, but in a sense, innovation is iteration. Just as Einstein explained the principle of wave-particle duality of light, light is both a particle and a wave. What it is depends on the way you measure and observe it.
Innovation is the result, and iteration is the process.