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
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.
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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