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Where Good Ideas Come From

Sep . 21 . 2010
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Author, Steven Johnson shares his insights on Where Good Ideas Come From in this creative short for his new book.

Author of Everything Bad Is Good for You and The Ghost Map addresses the question: Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

This video outlines some of the points from his new book: Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. I’m  curious to read more about his findings and find it interesting that he states that most good ideas need time to incubate. The question I have, is in this day and age of digital, do we have time to wait for an idea to be fully mapped out to action on it?

With as quickly as things move today, if you wait for your idea to be 100% perfect – someone else may get there before you. Is it better to be first or better to get the idea right? At the very least, I really like the visuals presented in this clip!

What do you think?

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  • http://michaelbox.net Michael Beckwith

    Larissa, if you ask me, the video presented ends with the most important points. This involves the mashing of not only your own little hunches, but mashing your hunches with the hunches of others, both like minded and not.

    I realize that you ask the importance of getting the idea first vs getting the idea right. However I think you miss out on the idea of getting the idea done together. Never be afraid to collaborate.

    Creative Commons licenses build off of these ideas of sharing and collaborating by allowing you and others to build ideas and results through sharing and collaborating with the ideas and resources under the license.

    This is also a fundamental aspect behind open source code. There are many other caveats to that topic, but at the core the FOSS movement is still very collaborative and community minded.

    When you get down to it, probably the best thing you can do for yourself and others is to document every hunch and idea. Copy down all aspects you can and get it all well explained, while still leaving room to have it branch out in unexpected ways. Lastly, don’t be afraid to talk about your ideas and share them. You never know when your little idea in the back of your head may cause a landslide for another person and solve an issue.

  • http://twitoaster.com/country-us/larissameek/ larissameek

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  • abiddeveloper

    @larissameek thats cool

  • cordula

    i really like this image of borrowing and combining ideas. today it’s mostly about being first and getting the an idea right, people don’t even consider the “or”-option.