...Summary of Where Good Ideas Come From Christian Myers October 4, 2014 Mr. Vigneron GS1145 I have wondered where people come up with these creative ideas to make our lives easier or more enjoyable so to say. Like George Washington Carver creating peanut butter or the Wright Brothers creating the first airplane over a century, which has been continuously used for numerous of things. According to Steven Johnson there are reoccurring patterns for coming up with these good ideas. He talks about how we want be more creative, come up with better ideas. Johnson took a picture of the first coffee shop in England and explains how they came up with the Enlightenment Party. Then Johnson explains the environments of the “Eureka Moments; flash, stroke, epiphany, eureka, and light bulb” (johnson, 2010). Which doesn’t happen immediately. It is called the slow hunch, which is a long-term idea that develops in a year or two or several years from now. Basically, “The idea has to incubate to form for that eureka moment” (johnson, 2010). However, if you have half a hunch you could find more people with the other half and they combined together called a “Collision which allows hundreds of people to connect with others hunches” (johnson, 2010). Johnson expounds the liquid network, which is “New network of neutrons firing in sync in your brain, new configuration that have not formed before” (johnson, 2010). Johnson reveals how Kevin Dunbar traveled around to these different science lab and...
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...Strategies for the Technical Professional October 13, 2014 The narrator Steven Johnson in the video “Where Good Ideas Come From” identifies several relevant situations (patterns) that he believes led to unusual levels of innovation or creativity. The introduction defines that Johnson looked for a shared/signature behavior or recurring patterns of innovations from the history of first cities to the biodiversity of coral reefs and rainforests. He said that these environments involved unusual levels of innovation. Through Johnson’s research and his quest for where good ideas are formulated, he mentioned certain moments of inspirations such as: a flash of insight, stroke of insight, epiphany, eureka, and lightbulb moments. However, he said that these moments share the basic assumption that an idea is a single thing. From here Johnson goes on to share situations (patterns) where he thinks good ideas are fostered: The Liquid Network: Johnson discussed that in early historical times that at a political dinner in a tavern provided a space or environment where a lot of ideas happened and it’s similar to coffeehouses of today. He also mentioned that the first coffeehouse in Oxford, England played a role in British culture for providing a space for not only consuming coffee but also a multi-space were people with different disciplines and backgrounds met to discuss anything from science to politics. Another example he used with regards to a work group situation: instead of having a...
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...Components for Great Ideas Strategies for the Technical Professional Module 3 Lab 1 Mark Hicks Some of the world’s greatest ideas and accomplishments did not just appear from thin air; rather most were cultivated through years of collaboration and through multiple modifications of the original hunch or hypothesis. Group collaboration and environments that support a creative atmosphere, essential components to the process of great ideas, is seemingly the idea Steven Johnson is trying to drive home in his video, “Where Good Ideas Come From”. Steven Johnson was trying to express or convey the message that great ideas come from a particular place setting or environment of specific stimuli that allow two or more people, with similar interests, to come together and further collaborate on one or more ideas and expand on an idea or hunch. His given example of said environment was the beginning of coffee shops. Coffee shops started springing into existence in the 1650’s after people were trying to figure out what else they could drink besides alcohol due to water typically being tainted. The population was used to consuming a depressant, alcohol, all day and then coffee shops started popping up and the population started drinking a stimulant, coffee, all day. In response to the change Steve Johnson accredits coffee shops with the beginning of great ideas. In essence people would gather at the coffee shops and drink and socialize all day so many great ideas got tossed around...
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...WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM NOSTA TANYIDAH GS1145 LAB 3.1 INTRODUCTION English coffee houses were crucial and essential to the spread of Enlightenment around 1650 and according to (Steven Johnson ) from the video coffee houses like “Grand Café” were at the center of where some great ideas came from. Before those years Drinking water was not safe to drink and most of the population was drunk all day from consumption of too much alcohol. Alcohol was the beverage of choice (Steven Johnson) as they drank beer in the morning, Wine for lunch and beer and wine to end their day. But with the transition to coffee and tea that is from a depressant to a stimulant, great ideas sprung up leading to the age of Enlightenment and thus and era of great awareness and creativity in and around Europe and the world. Coffee houses were like an architecture of space were ideas could have sex according to (Steven Johnson) from the video leading to space for creative thinking. There has however been drastic change ever since those years on till today Summary of Key Findings With the evolution of Coffee houses and subsequent involvement of people who would later develop great ideas to accompany their findings, ideas would later became innovations. To follow up with their findings scientist would later be sent around to science labs during weekly lab meetings, conference tables and coffee shops to really find out how ideas are develop to gain a sense of were great ideas really come. And...
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...Strategies Lab 1 Mod 3 Well there’s always several good questions People are always wondering where good ideas come from how did the good ideas that reshape Americas future in the 1800’s come from? In the past before the Rise of Coffee and Tea was Beer and Wine where the idea processing was bad and always drunk all the time so when America went from a depressant to a stimulant ideas started rolling on the right track. Like a train track when the people relied on beer and wine for ideas was like adding Tons of butter to the railroad tracks the train always kept falling off topic. But when America switched to Tea and coffee the train tracks stayed on target and never fell of the track once. So what I’m saying is that America should have started drinking coffee sooner to help develop good water to eventually rely on the stuff for sources of good knowledge. But another most important thing about the ideas overall is the space the surroundings you finds yourself in like go to a coffee house talk with other people with different kinds of expertise. Eventually after talking with those people regardless of where you meet them just tossing a few ideas around eventually generates a good idea. But on the flip side of the coin they could also generate bad ideas as well as good ones. Sometimes hteres idea processes like the slow hunch where I person heard of an idea and puts it together like a mentally long puzzle and uses logic to put the puzzle pieces together. They happen in mere moments...
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... * Aristotle argues that knowledge comes from our senses * Psychologists state that the majority of our knowledge come from our senses proving that sensory knowledge is also factual * Science has argues that there is no evidence to determine the alternate universe (Realm of the Forms) * The Forms are not based in the physical world and cannot be used to teach us about the physical world Evaluation: Strengths… * Psychologists have shown that our brain filters sensory information, proving how unreliable it can be * Science and Plato both use logic and reasoning to explain the laws of nature and events within nature * Empirical knowledge can be flawed Weaknesses * Aristotle argues that knowledge comes from our senses * Psychologists state that the majority of our knowledge come from our senses proving that sensory knowledge is also factual * Science has argues that there is no evidence to determine the alternate universe (Realm of the Forms) * The Forms are not based in the physical world and cannot be used to teach us about the physical world CONTINUED Philosopher King: prisoner becomes the philosopher king and should now lead and educate society as they are in knowledge of all the true Forms Hard Return: represents the difficulties in seeing the true Forms when in the world of mistaken appearances Rejection: prisoners show philosophical ignorance as they reject the help and true knowledge from the Philosopher King CONTINUED Philosopher...
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...of ethics interesting and could relate, on some level, to all of them. Behind each set of ethics, there is an underlying motive driving the choices that we make. Ancient philosophers believed that ethics were a means to perfecting human existence. The code that existed for the theorists of the ancients reflects the time that they lived. There is a comforting simplicity that was drawn in ancient ethics and in ideal world these ethics make sense, to me. For instance, Socrates compares human values to the tools of a carpenter, a carpenter must not only possess such tools, but he must know how to use his tools, in order to be successful (Euthyd. 280b-d) I love the idea of values being tools. Tools exist to build, our values also help us to build the existences we wish for ourselves and those around us. This fundamental idea is simple but profound and powerful when analyzing values. Aristotle had some interesting views on what makes a person virtuous. Although criticized for being self-serving, I tend to agree with Aristotle’s outlook. He says, that the ultimate and complete end in a human’s life is happiness and all other activity is a means to achieve happiness. Happiness is not chosen for the sake of anything else (1097a 25-1097b5). Aristotle’s view on...
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... Kant and Mill contribute to an overall picture of the historical ethical argument. Chronologically, the first major philosopher, Immanuel Kant, presents an argument that is based upon solely “a priori” knowledge, or rather knowledge that does not come from experience. Kant explains that because we are all rational beings, we are able to separate ourselves from our current human condition and use our own ability to reason to see a broad picture of what is morally acceptable to others. Similarly, Kant finds that the only thing which is good without limitation is a good will; that is, it is the intention of an action that determines the moral validity of any claim, not the effects both foreseen and actual. Kant connects this idea of morality to the claim that humans should act out of duty instead of just what is according to duty. The difference between these two ideas, Kant argues, is that “according to duty” is acting in the right way only because of the negative consequences associated with not performing a morally correct action whereas “from duty” refers to the concept of doing something solely because it is the right choice to make in a given situation. Rephrased, Kant calls these two choices the categorical imperative (from duty), which is completely unconditional in its call for action, and the hypothetical imperative (according to duty), which has one or more conditions that have to be satisfied for an action to be initiated. Further elaborating...
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...role it plays in perception of the culture. The final sections will talk about misalignments between espoused and enacted values. Google’s Culture and Values “It’s really the people that make Google the kind of company it is.” ("Our Culture", n.d.). The people who work at Google are smart, determined, and from various parts of the world. The company hires people based more on their ability instead of their experience. They also maintain an open culture that allows for communication with everyone else in the company. “Googlers” as they call themselves, can even ask questions directly to Larry Page, the CEO of Google. The company values the input and diversity of its employees. It’s the input and diversity that fuels the innovation that the company is known for. Communication and Culture “One of the key reasons for Google's success is a belief that good ideas can, and should, come from anywhere.” (Mayer, 2005). Google supports an all channel style of communication, meaning that everyone can talk to everyone else. This open communication and culture allows everyone in the organization to come up and voice their ideas for the company. These ideas could be new services, or maybe ways to cut back on spending. This ties into their culture because Google execs believe that this style of communication channel will help keep people relaxed and feeling like they are an important part of the company. Being relaxed...
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...asked a class of college students to identify it. They responded with the obvious: a chalk dot. Same question was asked to a group of kindergartners, and they had come up with numerous examples of what it might be: the top of a telephone pole, a squashed bug, an owl’s eye, a cigar butt, a rotten egg, and so on. Somewhere between childhood and adulthood many of us lose the ability to be creative and search for more than one right answer. Master of ceremony, fellow toastmasters and most welcomed guest, very good evening. Creativity is indispensible for success in today’s competitive word, either it is professional or personal life, or any of the business it is important. Creativity is the ability to generate new ideas or invent something new. Some creative ideas are astonishing and brilliant, while others are just simple, good, practical ideas that no one seems to have thought of yet. So how can we as adults regain and maintain our spirit of creativity? I will take you through three simple ways by which we can be creative, before we go to these tips, look on few examples where simple creativity thinking has helped their business One side PPT attached 1. Take good care of yourself. Good nutrition, a regular exercise plan and taking time to relax are all important to the creative process. When we feel good, our senses heighten, and we can be at our best creatively. Take time for yourself each day. Overscheduling is an enemy of creativity, so make sure you give yourself...
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...Intelligence is where you have smarts and are able to overcome obstacles and strength where you are physically possible to overcome obstacles with using your body. So Tolkien needed smartrs in his book to make it complete. They needed smarts to find routes, get away from danger, and good ideas so they can survive. Bilbo Baggins needed good navigation to make it to how far they have already gotten to in their journey. They would not have made it far if they didn’t have good navigating skills.The dwarves and Bilbo could have got lost if they didn’t not have a plan on how to get there. They would not need strength to navigate through the pathway. That’s one reason why he used smarts instead of physical strength to accomplish his mission. They...
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...Generational difference – May’s parents have a different view of belonging to American culture. They feels as if they belong more strongly to the Japanese culture which is why they decided to move back to Japan and teach may about Japanese culture. * May and her parents have different perceptions of belonging due to generational difference. This is shown in the image of May outside the front of her house with her mother on the inside (Mis en scene and proxemics). This shows that May’s mother does not feel as if he belongs in the American culture, he is scared of the American society and culture and is physically placing a barrier between the culture and herself. * May’s sense of belonging is contrasted to that of her parents as she has a good and...
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...Matheson Motivation Methods There are many different types of motivation methods that a manager can implement that will assist in improving not only moral but quality and quantity of work performance from the employees. The motivational techniques should be ones that will improve the quality of work from the employees and at the same time allow the company to thrive. The following paper will discuss some of these types of motivation methods that as a manager, I will employ and how they will benefit the company. Motivational Method # 1 The first motivational method I would like to employ would be one of employee recognition for contributions to the company. I would like to have an idea box where employees can contribute ideas and every month two will be drawn from the box and voted on by the employees as to which one they would like to work on implementing. Once the vote was in, the person who contributed the idea would receive their name posted on the idea board as recognition for their idea and would receive a gift certificate to a local restaurant as a reward for their idea (Sykes, 2003-2012). They will also be allowed to help motivate the rest of the team by getting the idea started and assisting the manager in implementing the idea. By allowing the staff to come up with ideas that will benefit the company and allowing them to take part in putting the project together, it also makes them feel like more of a valuable asset to the company. Staff members want to feel important...
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...Innovation is the act of coming up with new (mostly radical) ideas in form of products or a new technology. This particular definition paints a picture of some sort of paradigm shift from the conventional way of doing things. Today, however, Innovation has been found to encompass a wide range of business activities from pricing to costing models and service delivery options. In this regards, the guy that came up with the idea of turning wood into chairs is not more innovative than the guy that came up with the idea of putting cushions on it and/or how to market it and earn profit. The 5 Myths of Innovation addresses the basic assumptions generally made about Innovation. The authors seek to examine these assumptions and comment on its validity based on research and reported experience at the companies studied. The first myth is about The Eureka Moment. This talks about that áh’ feeling most often associated with a flash of insight or original idea. The article further states that a lot of companies organize big brainstorming events, ideation workshops, or innovation jams to try and come up with that sterling idea that will shake the world. As most often happens, nothing gets done after all these. The article makes a claim that the reason behind this is that most companies fail to realize that the greatest amount of work is not to come up with an idea but to make it work. It is in the latter stages of process where ideas are being worked up and developed in detail that are most time...
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...Idea-Mashing: 3 Foolproof Ways to Find Your Awesome Story Idea I hear new fiction writers say that they’d love to write, but they just don’t have any ideas for stories. In Stephen King’s On Writing he writes this about getting story ideas - “… good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun.” — Stephen King, On Writing Taking two ideas and joining them into something new, like King described, is called idea-mashing. Yes, I just made that up. King writes that ideas come from nowhere, but the opposite is true — ideas come from everywhere. The trick is to expose yourself to great ideas and let them naturally...
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