1. 1. WHY LEARN ABOUT IDEAS The more you know about how we form ideas, the better youll be at coming up with them! Stay curious. Creativity makes you a better problem solver People with ideas are valuable! Self- portrait of Curiosity in Gale Crater on the surface of Mars (October 31, 2012)
2. 2. Relative understanding We often use words and ideas we only understand in context. After a lot of years, they finally begin to sink in. Time Spiral. Digital image. Images For Time Spiral. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 May 2015. .
3. 3. Seven steps to having ideas James Webb young in his book A Technique for Producing Ideas says the ability to see relationships between facts is the most important factor in coming up with ideas. .
4. 4. Gathering Information This is the raw material for an idea. Cultivate it through these tried- and- true channels: read widely have an active interest in life & the world Pay attention to how people live, what they think, and how they behave
5. 5. Digest the raw material Work that information and find connections! As James Webb says, This part of the process is harder to describe in concrete terms because it goes on entirely inside your head. The Illustrated Professor: notes on neural theories of metaphor.
6. 6. Incubate your idea By putting it completely out of your mind! I guess Im spacing out. ItsOreki. .
7. 7. A Wild Idea Appears Eureka! Creating Ideas. Digital image. Pixgood. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 May 2015. .
8. 8. Exposure to Reality Shape and develop your idea Share your idea Rinse and repeat Ideas shared are ideas aired. http://www.mindmapinspiration.com/ideas-shared-are-ideas-aired/
9. 9. Ideas that relate It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent it is the one that is most capable to change. Charles Darwin Dawkins/ Darwin Memes. Memebase. Cheezburger.com, .
10. 10. Meme theory in life Cheyenne Teepee Sioux Teepees Blackfoot TeepeeComanche Teepees Shoshone Teepee Digital images. Historic Photos of Tipis. .
11. 11. Meme theory in life Note: open crowns, flat brims, a couple hand rolled brims (shaped simply by picking them up over and over)- and one hat shaped by sleeping on it as a pillow. Matador Land and Cattle, Texas, 1891. Rich, Curtis R. "In Search of the Real Cowboy Hat." Both images.
12. 12. Meme theory in life Coca Cola Collectibles. Collectors Weekly. Collectors Weekly. Web. 03 May 2015. .
13. 13. Behind the Wheel of Idea Evolution Encourage diversity Collaboration Strategic flexibility Understand your role Fishburne, Tom. Evolution of an idea. Marketoonist. There are four primary elements to Darwins theory of evolution, which theoretically applies to ideas
14. 14. Environmental Change Is the internet making us dumber?
15. 15. Superfecundity Organisms reproduce faster than they need to survive. Pat Linse, http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Articles/sk97.html
16. 16. Variation Rapid genetic drift over three generations: O'Neil, Dennis. Rapid Genetic Drift over Three Generations. Digital image. Small Population Size Effects.
17. 17. Replication I have a great idea for a necklace .
18. 18. Things that hinder idea evolution Fishburne, Tom. Survival of the Safest. Marketoonist.
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