This document discusses how individuals can identify important needs in the world and work to address them by inventing solutions. It notes that Thomas Edison's approach was to first understand what the world needs and then work to invent something to meet that need. The document encourages the reader to consider how their strengths can help address big needs and find career and life harmony by focusing on a meaningful need and coming up with an idea to solve it, using examples of initiatives that paired needs with ideas to help many people.

1. Source: NASA

2. “How does this apply to me?”
*You
November 12, 2010

3. false choices

4. “I find out what the world needs, then I
proceed to invent.”
Thomas Edison
September 23, 1889

5. your
strengths
big
needs
career (and life)
harmony
=+

6. 6
(1)

7. 7

8. Misiones, Argentina
September 26, 2010
© 2009 AP Photo/Anupam Nath
need + idea = 1 million pairs
given away in only 4 years
Misiones, Argentina
September 23, 2010

9. 9
(2)

10. Watch your step in Monrovia,
Liberia, especially on this
street.

11. 11
(3)

12. 12
(2)
One of the 70 billion animals
suffering behind the walls of
factory farms

13. two big mistakes

14. 14

15. “How does this apply to me?” Join us –
and find out.
twitter: @joshtetrick
blog.33needs.com

16. 16