WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson

[@triplea007]

what an outstanding presentation. The information, the voiceover, the content, the hand drawing, the flow . . . truly a piece of art. Especially because the answer was revealed and it wasn't just another click bait video. Thank you.

[@nhanhnguyen3542]

I've never found someone with such kooky presentation that still speaks the truth so eloquently. Subbed.

[@dimitramikou7558]

What a presentation! Genious way to combine meanings, structure them from scratch one by one; interrelate them; progress them; integrate them!

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[@joshwinn6608]

i had trouble paying attention to what he was saying because the drawing was so cool. haha good video

[@TimBlake]

This video is so dead on! It's also brilliantly illustrated. Good ideas don't just happen. We creatives don't have shelves full of them just waiting for someone to stop in and buy one. Good ideas take time!

[@proactionteam]

Synergy and leverage are my two favorite concepts. Those forces have been involved in most breakthroughs and great achievements of mankind. We continue to build on the shoulders of those who came before us and those we can now connect with...

[@mitigiant5328]

That drawing is awesome

[@TCraigoo]

+Ablimit Ablet Where did he get a white board that big lol

[@mitigiant5328]

+Thomas Craig after effects

[@sheilagouvea5326]

Abele Gigante what's the name of this drawing technology? Where can I find it?

[@mitigiant5328]

Sheila Gouvea that's called - Explainer drawing

[@iftikharali7779]

@@sheilagouvea5326 did you find technology for this type of drawing

[@yellowdough2001]

'chance favors the connected mind'; so true ... great drawing depiction for innovation!

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

Excellent info. I love the little animation that accompanies the talk. Really helps add impact to what is being said.

[@victoriamazonica22]

So neat!!!! I NEEDED to see this today, I felt overwhelmed, desperately willing to move to an isolated place where I could hide from email, facebook, cell phones, telephones and doorbells, but now I see how connectivity furthers human endeavor, so the links, lines and collective hunches are crucial, valuable, and not as scary as I was thinking...

[@hipchickfitness]

The drawings are vrey helpful in grasping the ideas, for me, to have a good idea, you should have a good heart

[@vynedvyne59]

This is "the" stumble of new information...all new concept of illustration to communicate bigger ideas....I am crying this is so good, so clear and so helpful. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!

[@SpiritofSix]

As the great modern philosopher Nietzsche puts it: ideas do not belong to one man, and we are not a certain set of ideas--we are all the ideas that exist, we merely do not realize and thus associate with only certain thoughts. Each person is a receptor and generator of new ideas, some of which are merely parts of even greater ideas. The point is that we cannot make use of our full potential until we understand that we should not put up walls in our brains when it comes to new ideas and thoughts. We must become open to all ideas because it is this connectivity and freedom that will allow for us to come to greater understandings and conclusions. I talk about the power of ideas in a video, and how man is nothing more than the idea he upholds. Please do feel free to check it out if you're interested, my friends. Your opinions and arguments spring some interesting debates that help me grow as well. That is all.

[@veronikavaltonen4313]

What book is this from?

[@romacoma6069]

What if the other person steals all the credit from both yours and his hunch ? Not only he steals your idea, he gets rich off of it. Just like how Disney got his original ideas of Mickey Mouse stolen.

[@MyHimena]

amazing video, im a montessori teacher and i really believe that good ideas come from the environment that is created in montessori .a peaceful and quiet environment , and full of love helps the children to feel free to give ideas , which are considered "good ideas ", they are free to explore and see with their own eyes .

[@lv4077]

Looking for students?

[@grantcooper5799]

I really liked the "slowly simmering, collision of hunches" model for good ideas! One of my best ideas was just like that: an idea for a show that took years to be a full idea. I had this basic concept (Which was based on something from Pokemon) when I was a kid. I didn't think about it again for years, then I revisited it later and played with the idea a bit more, adding onto it. Soon after that I discovered the show Steven Universe and made even more edits to the concept (partially to avoid "copying" them, partially to learn from their mistakes). It was then that I realized I had something worth putting effort into and to this day I write draft scripts for episodes with no idea how to actually make it a real animated show.

[@ignited08]

While there is so much debate about whether social media is working right for us, your clear thought about when and how it works right is what I really liked.

[@JJ-hp2oe]

when he zooms out and i see the light bulb, i'm like "WHAAAAAA"

[@AmparoDelRioDesign]

Ideas are stored in your head. Much like encyclopedic knowledge. The more you know about the subject the more ideas you can generate. I am designing a kitchen right now. Came up with 20 floor plans for this kitchen. They are all good, this process allows you to brainstorm your many solutions to a design problem.

[@YassineBnihla]

Great #video :" WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM " #innovation #Ideas

[@Aalling76]

Well people was amazed because presentation is everything. That is also an important lesson to learn if you embrace open innovation and want to sell you ide to a company.

[@NTDOffTheGreatWall]

I want to know how this video is made!

[@yasamasoodchalki9011]

Me too sir.

[@ShellMendelson]

There is yet another piece to this - the connected soul - where does spirituality and the true law of attraction come into play. When I'm allowing myself to be connected to my source via meditation simply focusing on ease and calmness, I get inspired and then ideas and information and people seem to come together. It's all energy!

[@conceptinstinct3287]

Still don't know where good ideas come from :(

[@iancampbell4300]

They come from the collision of two or more smaller half ideas, hunches, the collision of which requires connection and exposure, which is the twist of this argument. More connection increases the chance of these hunches colliding, ergo connection is where good ideas come from. That'll be $50.

[@janicelgo4522]

One of the most influential concepts in my career. I'm usually the one who comes up w the original hunch and good at adding hunches based on other's hunches. I always point to Steve's content when people ask why I'm so good at coming up w ideas or solutions or problem solving.

[@CarlosCastellanos]

Great video and concept. At the same time it makes me wonder if sometimes for some minds and as a collateral of being connected we spend more time searching for others' hunches than one's own.

[@ocastellanosv]

Excelente video Carlos Castellanos gracias por comapartir

[@YawnyCatBird]

This is awesome. That's why our ideas often fail in the absense of others, because we don't yet have the whole picture. 3:07 is sometimes like a needle in a haystack. But we are doing things all the time now on the Internet that we couldn't have even dreamed of five years ago. Just look at my twitter to see how quickly my mind shifts from one subject to another. It's this INTERCONNECTEDNESS that we need. Some people though still keep their ideas to themselves.

[@thetraveler893]

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Instead of wasting time creating the perfect idea in your mind, actually release your idea early and see what works and what doesn't. Also the best ideas are usually copycats of something proven but made differently.

[@mikeharrison0_0]

Omg 10 years how old r u now?

[@lv4077]

There’s something to that.

[@lv4077]

Actually,that’s pretty much true

[@bozz88able]

Very well done. Nice mindmap. I have found that creative ideas emerge best from sleep. You get out of the way of yourself and with your prefrontal in neutral your mind does all the driving. In my writing, I harness this outside-the-box creativity by studying my story bulletpoints before bed and then just go to sleep. I give my subconscious mind homework. Ideas then form -- uninhibited -- and in my waking hours they just drop from the cosmos, usually while I'm doing a mundane chore.

[@gavinli4405]

dont tell me im the only one who thought the title is "where good ideas come from by steve jobs'..

[@godfreyzimba3242]

An inspiring source of where good research ideas come from.

[@mayjabri7647]

Love it!

[@RandaBashlah]

Love it too .. It depicted a reality that we should be aware of and make the best of it

[@Bpooutsourcingremote]

Yeah! It's a basic information but in doing graphics design it looks like more interesting. It's easy to understand because of the wonderful design. Graphic design is part of our daily lives. We need to come up unique better ideas to catch the first impression of the users. Thanks for making this video. GREAT!

[@evanstone724]

I want the whole big picture at the end to be on a T-shirt

[@oscardeltoro1186]

Very nice in deed ,I do believe the concept of share is fundamental to improve our own process of development.

[@stevo728822]

Yes, but the growth of bad ideas work in the same way.

[@CausallyExplained]

stevo728822 but they eventually fail cuz they are bad.

[@nandwana1982]

What a great Painter !!! I like this video and concept and bringing it to world...Cheers !!!!

[@vivavaldez87]

Dear Film People, I have an idea for a movie. It would be framed as a crime thriller, but would really be a dramatic metaphor for the journey all women experience from 13 to 50. The emotional centre of the movie would have to be played by one of today's most talented female leads. Maybe Judy Dench, Helen Mirren or Tara Reid. The film would start with a woman driving in the rain. The music would be moving and creepy, building to a suspenseful crescendo. A shadow from the dark appears and BAM! She hits a figure, in a bloody spattering mess. Thinking it's a deer, she drives on, but sees a human body in the rear view mirror, lying in the fetal position. She then screams and starts to bleed from between her legs, slowly at first, but building, again with fitting music. The dribble becomes a flow, and eventually a spluttering gush, a torrent of crimson disaster. The next scene takes place in a police station after being arrested. A similar sequence of events builds until she once again screams at the scene's climax, and once again, the gush begins. The next scene would follow the same structure in a court room, followed by a prison, then during another court scene once she has completed her minimum sentence, and upon early release. All ending with the scream and the gushing. The final scene would be a repeat of the first, but this time no police stops her and she gets away. No scream, no gushing. The rain ends, the clouds part, birds sing, and serene music plays as she closes her eyes and smiles, bathed in a beam of sunlight. The important thing would be to have a load of great catch phrases for a trailer, so she could say "please, sir, I'm bleeding my case as best I can" in the courtroom scenes, or "blooders and sisters of the jury..." - oh and the film is called "Gush". Much like the director of Terminator, James Cameron, I had a dream about this movie, and I very much hope it will become a classic of the genre and one of the most influential films of this decade. Help me get this film made and you won't regret it. Sincerely, Valdez

[@hellothere5414]

Good luck with that...

[@wisemonkeys8941]

valdez87 thanks.... You just gave me an idea which might bring me millions. #Thumbsup

[@Manpantspoo]

It's one of them old time Menstrual Shows. Hello my baby, hello my Darling, hello my RAG time gal.

[@jolt187]

Definitely going to need to revisit this. Promising, I suppose, but this framework doesn't clearly state the metaphor - if any - you're thinking of and seems like a fetish flick about periods.

[@notforme785]

that was beyond stupid

[@webwisedomllc]

...always one of my favorite videos in my Social Tech Boot Camp for Insurance Executives. "because chance favors the connected mind". And why I am a big advocate of blogging - both internal and external. Thanks for doing this...

[@SethV0812]

That's a lot of turtles...

[@Lordruthstrom]

Beutiful presentation! Great speach, great creative drawings and the way everything was tied together in the end presenting your book!? What a wonderful surprise. Will most definately check it out!

[@danilpendikov]

holy fucking shit great drawing.

[@DalhatsLA]

This is amazing. I love how you use animals to associate the words like turtle for slow hunches and a hen for incubation, which finally fused together and merged into a lamp.

[@morganray262]

My favorite idea was my chemical romance

[@primordial_thoup]

+IamaUnicorn omg

[@imyourhopeimyouryooniverse9038]

I literally came here to see this comment because I was bored...

[@matthewandrews2148]

not my last work place, environment forced people to work silo style. I am glad to be in a new environment that feels like this. Very good eye opener. think about it. free open area of collaboration. Not found in corporate USA these days.

[@LorraineEsposito]

What a cool way to explain this! A good idea is only useful when it's made tangible.

[@NitinRock007]

Thank-you very much 4 sharing your knowledge. & thanks johnson sir superb

[@ConstruirConocimient]

Steven brilliantly summarizes the process to generate innovative ideas, "Connecting with others, connect our minds."

[@swanra1]

I am in a space of what this video talks of: stages to ideas and the time it takes to materialize them. am working on some "original" ideas adding to other's theories (everything creative comes from Cosmic Memory- it is about receiving this inspiration!) Time to incubate and expand vision colliding with other hunches as the video says-the Synergy. It is about being the builder - being one who builds on other's ideas and we add to this collective and others build upon our own and so on.Thank you

[@MiN8tive108]

I found real value in recognizing that our technological evolution is NOT so much a demon, that some portray previously. I'm happy to see Steven make it obvious, as well as the overall content of the video. Well done.

[@TomBrooklyn]

Drawings were meaningful. Video concept is clever. Thumbs Up.

[@jonlaban4272]

Increases in connectivity ...the prime engine of innovation

[@ELLLE1]

In addition it is often not NOT about creativity and ideas but about a power struggle with the old world. That's why implementation is more important.

[@gorgolyt]

It's not long-forgotten, it's completely pertinent. He talks in this video and in the book about the kind of spaces which optimise the creation of new ideas (for instance the coffee houses of the enlightenment). A society which encourages the free adaptation and mixing of existing ideas is definitely such a space.

[@alanroberts5056]

It's funny just a few minutes ago the thought came to me about ideas and where do they come from and as far as I can tell this is the only site that directly deals with this exact issue. THANK YOU!!!

[@MATFlawless]

This video post is in fact enormous, the sound quality and the picture feature of this tape post is truly awesome.

[@Itisvignesh]

I don'k know what is about this video that makes me watch it often.. This is one of the video, I see over the past year more than ones...

[@yanickdanielborg4566]

I think this is very true. The better ideas usually begin with a hunch or stroke of genius, and develop into something more meaningful via communicating with others. Archimedes realisations of volume and density were more along the lines of genius.

[@OwynWorks]

Ultimately, I will think outside of the box, or as I call it, thinking weird to be innovative. I don't just think up two random things and combine them to create something new, I often dream of something I cannot do or haven't seen but wish to. This is my process of creative thinking.

[@bcompany3150]

Hello, very nice xplainer video, awesome creativeness,

[@catASHtrophe168]

I think what goes hand in hand with great ideas is the realization of two things, and how well you dissolve those two together. The realization of how amazing the human/your mind is and the concept of infinity. Think about it. The human mind can project anything you imagine and there's no limit to it. Imagine an apple. A blue apple. With a bite taken out from it and a worm spiraling about it. You're free to add whatever next but did you or did you not see that image in your head?

[@TashiRogo]

Necessity is the mother of innovation. If you have not experienced this first hand you will never really understand it. "Connectedness" is a good way to propagate ideas, but is also the best way to get swamped in group-think. I have not read this book, but this video seems pretty myopic in my opinion.

[@tracyrose2749]

Huge Steve Johnson Fan...was looking for a similar video on the idea of "Adjacent Possibilities"....which is as profound imho

[@MuonRay]

My opinion is valid because the talk is about connectivity and that the increase in connectivity is a good thing; for me independent thought and work is far more important.

[@DAVIDSDIEGO]

Eloquently conveyed via a combination of art and rhetoric. I would like to see more!

[@agronskeyhooper479]

This precisely expresses what I have not been able to get across to people for like, ever...

[@williamtate4989]

Great simple, but powerful graphics and talk!

[@siminthesky]

If we weren't so separated by tricks and distracted by foolish commercial and mindcontroling crap, more people could bring the piece of the puzzle together in a very short time, and find out that we were all working on the same puzzle...!! ..this is my personal quote...thank you... siminthesky greets you

[@srinivasanvenkataraman2703]

One must admire his sketches so easy and so fast and inspiring. " Pictorial presentation can have more effect than pages of writing" effect has been proved. It is just hitting the nail on its head and driving the student, reader to grasp what he wants to communicatein simple but effective way. No doubt he is being admired.

[@wardanuux123]

OMG This video is solo Helpful THANK YOU THANK THANK YOU . The Most Inspiring Video Ever!!

[@selmabrasil]

Wow! I love this non-linear way of thinking and organizing information, this multimedia way of presenting knowledge. This is certainly one of the great contribuitions of thechnology nowadays. Loved the talk and d=the media, very useful and creative, indeed!

[@sunnisukumar]

Wonderful summary video. Well done!

[@MsxMisunderstood]

My own college english professor recommended this video to us. Consider you be godly.

[@bricesimoens869]

very talented artist. I'm totally a visual person. Your way of speech is awesome learning for me :)

[@jihuiyang902]

Awesome drawing that helped to convey the ideas!!! Thanks.

[@ruthdemshick9395]

For the visual learner, this was a homerun! I watched the Ted talks and like usual needed this visual version in order for it to "sink in"!

[@karlareyesmba]

Connectivity has been driving good ideas. Two heads think better than one. This means we should surround ourselves with people who are notorious for having great ideas.

[@codydeegan5915]

When you are doing business, ideas are very important because it's what makes us move forward.

[@theideaclub]

Absolutely brilliant analysis. I am honored that I found your video by 'Chance'! Keep thinking and sharing, please!

[@kidebit-apricelesseducatio9783]

This is a great video that depicts how KiDebit was created with my own little hunches, thing 1 and thing 2 in my kitchen almost a year ago! A must watch You Tube Experience!

[@najihanasrodin476]

Easy to understand..I like thiss video😊😊..

[@robertamiscia2592]

Excellent and stunning video. You gave me an idea....

[@nicolabrett1981]

I do have lots of great ideas, YES but they have all been slow to get off the ground. Money to start with is a big huge help to getting your great idea or hunch out there.

[@matthewflavia4444]

Wow This awakens the ability innovate and create the magic

[@vonBatFilms]

more than all the talk it's the drawing that is really innovative in this one!!!

[@Rohansprophecy]

Nice AV. In my view most of the ideas come from investing more time with consumers, stakeholders and competition. All the answers li in the market place.

[@Iam1nsane]

OMG, this is really brilliant. Such a great vid and i havent seen a single comment lauding how coherrant and logically sound this guy is? Will sound arrogant of me, but quite a bit of this has been on my mind for years, i am just not kickass or active enough to make a vid this good. Your book has to be a really great one. Will go and get it as soon as it comes to my shores. :) GL.

[@maddy]

The summation is great - "chance favors the connected mind". The drawing is done by CognitiveMedia. They did that comic style drawing for other great talks as well. Can't add a link here.

[@Mindsaw]

Love your ideas and your whiteboard videos..very creative

[@eddiecnw]

Very good video. Interesting creativity.

[@FredericLeupe]

Brillant. Dans le propos, et, surtout, dans le dessin qui l'accompagne!

[@globalheartwarming]

A lot of great art comes from heartbreak. So not just connection but the need for connection.

[@strategysprints]

Interesting approach. We are doing a webinar about how to start innovation - and found the most successful innovation is born out of necessity and built around and for people.

[@elsathelioness]

We always learn awesome things/history inventions from Steven Johnson.

[@bloopatroopa]

collaborating your ideas with friends and family is very important! If a friend or family member wants to talk you you about an idea, dont shoot it down right away! Humor them and actually absorb what they say.

[@TheJimuza]

These videos are awesome, is there a dedicated site for them?

[@hermangaitan6398]

I agree with this except on the last part of the video. Although i do agree being connected allow us to get output on our ideas or find the missing piece to complete our idea. Is also counterproductive as i often have found people tend to go to the most obscure of websites and steal ideas or stories from others and use them as their own. I still believe reading in the way to go and to stay away from the internet when trying to come up with great ideas. If we lurk too much on the web to find that hunch we might create an idea that is not completely original or extraordinary. If by finding the hunch you mean researching on something you know to expand the idea then is fine. This is good but is only a small part of where ideas come from.

[@nambreadnam]

I always have liked the idea of a place where people can meet and exchange ideas. Conversation in general, normal conversation, should be just that. Now however when I go to a teashop, arts cafe or record store it's a load of hipsters who'd rather inflate their self-worth and preen. Taking credit for something that until 20 years ago was simply a natural part of discourse.

[@zuheir.albakry]

wowwww,creative video..awesome!! from malaysia

[@iskittlesmonica8510]

I think its a computer-made animation. However, it is GREAT! And I think this ideea and the way to explain things like this is just awesome.

[@frankvanwaaijen]

Fantastic presentation...