Where Bad Ideas Come From : The Natural History Of Failure

For my first reading journal I had chose to read the article “Where Do You Get Your Ideas”, by Neil Gaiman. This article was about the development of where your ideas really do come from. There isn't a specific way you get your ideas, infact according to the article your ideas can come out of boredom, they can come day dreaming, but the main one are questions. Ideas tend to form when one asks themselves questions and Neil explains that. Questions that start with “what if”, “If only”, or “what would happen” are what start ideas. Questions are what our ideas come from really, if you had a question chances are there will always be an answer wither its a weird , serious, or right answer you always get a response. Neil also talk about how writing is very important for his ideas. It’s how he makes his money really. Writing stories all day long and generating his ideas on paper is how he make

Made to stick is a book written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath about why some ideas survive and others die. The book identifies six main elements that every great idea contains. Those six key traits are put into a small acronym “SUCCES”. Its letters represent the key elements of simple, unexpected, concrete, credible, emotion, and story. Those key elements can make an idea last the test of time. This sounds simple enough to attain a stick idea status, however our prior knowledge can hinder how well we use these tools.

What I think about "The Art of Failure" article by Malcolm Gladwell and his concept of choking and panicking are totally true. He describes the words choking as a word where your in a situation of trouble and do something to get out and panicking where your in a situation of trouble and not do anything at all and panic. I have been in several spots where I have had to use these two words. I would say though that I am more of a choker and get over my troubles instead of a panickier accept for one time.

Specifically, so much of the time, those who have brilliant ideas in their head do little or nothing with them, so actual actions instead of useless

“Black people be like, ‘Gimme that fried chicken or Imma shoot’,” said the desperate comedian, who was dressed up as a “gangster” in a poor attempt to disguise his prejudice in the name of humor. Humor similar to the latter further endorses single stories, and because the comedian is popular, he has the power to promote an oversimplified generalization of an entire group of people regardless of their individual differences and make his racism appear tolerable, therefore laying the foundation of the cycle of oppression. The single story that young black men who grow up under the oppression of systematic failure will be violent and subvert authority is created by people with power and is the reason why the cycle of oppression happens as it does.

Aesop's short story "The Fox and the Grapes" tells of a fox failing to find a way to reach some grapes hanging high up on a vine. The story deals with the rationalization of the failure to attain a desired end. Rather than accept a personal failure by acknowledging our shortcomings or by unemotionally evaluating the circumstances that surrounded the failure, we rationalize and come up with an immediate excuse. We need to convince ourselves and everybody else who witnessed our attempts that the outcome was all for the best. Just like the fox, we actually prepare our egos and our witnesses to view a future failure as if it were actually the result we intended.

Stupid ideas are very much possible to evolve into a serious business venture. A once-laughable business concept often made its inventor get the last laugh. Here is the second part of top ten Stupid Business Ideas That Worked.

Applying for a patent does not guarantee approval, most patent prosecutions do not get beyond the application process. For an idea to be patentable, there are requirements that must be met. Is the idea being submitted a patentable subject matter? What is the usefulness of the idea? Is it novel or unique? What is the level of non-obviousness? Enablement, could a skilled person make it work? (Law.Cornell.com, 2016)

According to one popular novel titled “Thinking about Almost Everything: New ideas to light up minds.” The authors say “Ideas make the world, for they are the guide to future practice. Even the flimsiest ideas rooted in prejudice and

Napoleon Hill stated ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. When you have a great business idea it is not enough just have it somewhere in your brain, the second thing to do is to realize it in other words it is called idea feasibility. Same as this American author stated by having a successful idea you can open doors to new opportunities and attract fortune. The idea is like a new product which can be applied to a new business. The more successful the product is the better results it will give in the

General Electric in this ad demonstrates the idea that any human from the moment of birth to death, requires nourishment, protection and care to grow as a beautiful person. Similarly, the concept of this advertisement shows us that when an idea is born it is immature, messy and ugly as it threatens what is already known but when it is paid more attention and when it is edited and embellished in the right way, it can turn into a big invention that can be unique and very successful at the same time. GE has used a very smart approach of targeting audiences that value creativity and innovation, these audiences would include those interested in technology, engineers, scientists, artists and doctors.. The three

     Our assignment is to create and promote an innovative product. In developing a new product, we started with an idea generation. This is a systematic search for new-product ideas. Companies go through many ideas before they come to find some good ones. We had to do the same thing. We thought of many ideas on our own. It was more of an internal idea source as opposed to going outside of our partnership for ideas. Our first idea was a restaurant with half of it an actual restaurant and the other half an automobile tuner shop. The next idea was a new energy drink that would be less costly and better tasting. Our next idea came up when we were sitting

In the beginning lectures, I had no idea that brainstorming and conceptualizing an idea was part of an elaborate process to generate good product ideas. Great inspiration and a creative idea require deep thinking. I have learned that opportunity identification involves looking into the problems first rather than diving

1. Idea Generation: Idea generation is the actual development of ideas that can become products or services. Either competitors, employees, suppliers, or customers can be the generators of these ideas. Idea generation is the first step in the offered get development process and is often the least costly financially speaking.