There are days when I look at the headlines and feel despair more than hope. Maybe you have been feeling the same way, so today, I wanted to look at three stories that just landed in my inbox.

What links them all, for me, is remembering that famous saying of Albert Einstein’s that the definition of insanity is doing what you have always done and expecting different results. All three of these stories involve people who looked at problems and thought differently, and – as a result – came up with new ideas for solutions.