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Where good ideas come from - steven johnson
Steve Johnson declares during his TED Talk at TED GLOBAL 2010 that he set out to discover the recurring patterns that we can apply to our lives to foster an environment that allows us to be more creative. He says an idea is a network, and the question we should be asking ourselves is how to get our brains in such an environment.
As Johnson states, an idea is not an isolated event, an Eureka Moment, a unique epiphany, but the result of an interesting combination: a long process he calls The Slow Hunch and the collective sharing of experiences, mistakes and viewpoints. Ideas are nothing but many parts of other things cobbled together, he says.
I relate this to The Future and Its Enemies, by Virginia Postrel. She talks that progress, and future itself, is created by an infinite series of combiniations of old ideas, old concepts, old rules that, when combined within themselves, create something completely new. In her words:
There are many dynamic systems in the world, many areas of life that evolve and improve through trial-and-error learning, from "digital organisms" that evolve better computer programs to global financial markets, from adaptable architecture to international science. Looking across these various processes, we can find patterns in their fundamental rules, though we can fully apply those patterns to a specific case only when we understand that particular system...
As Johnson states, an idea is not an isolated event, an Eureka Moment, a unique epiphany, but the result of an interesting combination: a long process he calls The Slow Hunch and the collective sharing of experiences, mistakes and viewpoints. Ideas are nothing but many parts of other things cobbled together, he says.
I relate this to The Future and Its Enemies, by Virginia Postrel. She talks that progress, and future itself, is created by an infinite series of combiniations of old ideas, old concepts, old rules that, when combined within themselves, create something completely new. In her words:
There are many dynamic systems in the world, many areas of life that evolve and improve through trial-and-error learning, from "digital organisms" that evolve better computer programs to global financial markets, from adaptable architecture to international science. Looking across these various processes, we can find patterns in their fundamental rules, though we can fully apply those patterns to a specific case only when we understand that particular system...
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