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Progress takes patience

The Editor, Re: "Progress borne of outrage," Editorial, Jan. 4. With regard to your editorial, you observed the protests across the globe have yet to bring about solutions.

The Editor,

Re: "Progress borne of outrage," Editorial, Jan. 4.

With regard to your editorial, you observed the protests across the globe have yet to bring about solutions. I would like to add that the problem is not so much a lack of solutions, but indifference, self-interest and entrenched views.

A small group of us started looking into a solution after the last financial meltdown in 2008. The sad thing is we find people jump to conclusions when the beginning of arriving at a solution (not a final solution) is presented. They say, "It won't work!"

If the history of discovery and innovation is any indication, it is that the people who can sort through all the noise and entrenched views, come up with something revolutionary.

Issac Newton, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin and Steve Jobs had similar qualities: Keen observations, disciplined collection of evidences, foolishness to ask "stupid questions," independent thinking, insightfulness and courage to take action.

The problem with any truly innovative idea is that one needs to ram it down people's throats before they realize it's the right medicine.

Patrick Chun Richmond