Curiosity UNSW 2017
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This document discusses the importance of curiosity in fueling creativity and innovation. It contains 3 main points: 1. Curiosity is the root of creativity, and maintaining curiosity keeps leading people down new paths of exploration and discovery. Staying curious requires an openness to new ideas and experiences. 2. Connecting different experiences and ideas is how truly creative people develop new combinations and solutions. Creativity comes from making connections between old elements in new ways. 3. Failure is an inevitable and necessary part of innovation. An environment that encourages risk-taking and learning from mistakes allows people to do new things where failure is possible but not feared. This kind of culture is more conducive to breakthrough
Curiosity UNSW 2017
- 1. FROM CURIOUS TO CREATIVETECHNOLOGY AND TODAY’S GIFTED STUDENTS brianhousand.com/unsw17
- 4. Curiosity is the root of creativity. Alex Wright Imagineer
- 5. 2005
- 13. IQ = Curiosity + Effort (von Stumm, Hell, and Camorro-Premuzic, 2011)
- 14. “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
- 18. Cat killer or Breeder of invention? Curiosity,
- 19. Around here we don’t look backwards for very long… We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things because we’re curious, and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- 20. GO
- 21. GO
- 24. I am interested in _______________.EVERYTHING
- 35. It’s not just for kids, It’s for teachers too!
- 36. curiosity.com
- 37. mentalfloss.com
- 39. The real voyage of consists not in seeking new landscapes,but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust consists not in seeking new landscapes,but in having new eyes.
- 44. Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and SYNTHESIZE new things. - Steve Jobs, 1995
- 45. An idea is nothing more or less than a new combination of old elements. new combination old elements James Webb Young, 1940 A Technique for Producing Ideas
- 46. The capacity to bring old elements into new combinations depends largely on the ability to see relationships. new combination old elements James Webb Young, 1940 A Technique for Producing Ideas
- 47. The most successful Imagineers are those who see “this is new to me” as an opportunity, not a barrier. Josh Gorin
- 48. They are willing to go outside their comfort zone in the interest of expanding their horizons and gaining new perspectives. Josh Gorin
- 49. Constantly ask questions, learn how things work, try new and exciting things, and you’ll build up a strong base of experiences and an ongoing curiosity that will serve you well at WDI and in life.” Josh Gorin
- 50. #carpetdiem
- 51. Know it All
- 56. puzzlements.co
- 59. I didn’t know I was interested in that.
- 60. HEIGHTEN ANTICIPATION STIMULATE INTEREST DEEPEN UNDERSTANDING
- 61. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE STUCK?
- 69. Encourage exploration, challenge, and revision. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/NASA_child_bubble_exploration.jpg
- 70. SAGE ON THE STAGE GUIDE ON THE SIDE SAGE ON THE STAGE GUIDE ON THE SIDE
- 78. Emphasize the current topics of debate in a field.
- 79. TEDTalks
- 82. What are the DETAILS of the discipline? What are the MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES in the discipline? What are the BIG IDEAS of the discipline? What are some of the UNANSWERED QUESTIONS?
- 83. Invite guest speakers to share the mysteries they’re exploring.
- 86. Encourage students to keep asking “WHY?” (even after it gets annoying).
- 88. Challenge students to argue from an alien viewpoint.
- 90. Provide assignments that students will fail.
- 94. FAILURE isn’t a necessary evil. In FACT, it isn’t EVIL at all. It is a NECESSARY consequence of doing something NEW. - Ed Catmull
- 97. TRUST
- 98. https://hbr.org/resources/images/article_assets/hbr/0809/R0809D_B.gif YOU ARE NOT YOUR IDEA
- 99. Get great creative people. Bet big on them. Give them enormous leeway and support. Provide them with an environment in which they can get honest feedback from everyone. PIXAR’S PHILOSOPHY
- 100. candorn. the state or quality of being frank, open, and sincere in speech or expression
- 101. Early on, all of our movies suck. Ed Catmull
- 102. http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/wall-e/images/6412320/title/wall-e-wallpaper-wallpaper “If something works, you shouldn’t do it again. We want to do something that is new, original — something where there’s a good chance of failure.”
- 104. “The attempt to avoid failure makes failure more likely. Trying to avoid failure by out-thinking it dooms you to fail.” http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Sadness - Ed Catmull
- 105. YOUR COMFORT ZONE
- 106. Imposing limits can encourage a creative response. - Ed CatmUll
- 107. THE MARSHMALLOW CHALLENGE 20 sticks of spaghetti 1 yard of masking tape 1 yard of string 1 marshmallow
- 108. 1. Build the Tallest Freestanding Structure. 2. The Entire Marshmallow Must be on Top. 3. Use as Much or as Little of the Kit. 4. You may break up the Spaghetti, String or Tape. 5. The Challenge Lasts 18 minutes. 6. Those touching or supporting the structure at the end of the exercise will be disqualified. 20 sticks of spaghetti 1 yard of masking tape 1 yard of string 1 marshmallow
- 109. D’OH!
- 112. ITERATE
- 117. Story
- 118. 1977
- 127. I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. -Eleanor Roosevelt
- 129. CURIOSITY
- 130. JOYOUS
- 131. IMAGINATION
- 132. CREATIVITY
- 133. PASSION
- 134. STOP
- 135. GO