WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson

One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from?

With Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson pairs the insight of his bestselling Everything Bad Is Good for You and the dazzling erudition of The Ghost Map and The Invention of Air to address an urgent and universal question: What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen? Answering in his infectious, culturally omnivorous style, using his fluency in fields from neurobiology to popular culture, Johnson provides the complete, exciting, and encouraging story of how we generate the ideas that push our careers, our lives, our society, and our culture forward.

Beginning with Charles Darwin's first encounter with the teeming ecosystem of the coral reef and drawing connections to the intellectual hyperproductivity of modern megacities and to the instant success of YouTube, Johnson shows us that the question we need to ask is, What kind of environment fosters the development of good ideas? His answers are never less than revelatory, convincing, and inspiring as Johnson identifies the seven key principles to the genesis of such ideas, and traces them across time and disciplines.

Most exhilarating is Johnson's conclusion that with today's tools and environment, radical innovation is extraordinarily accessible to those who know how to cultivate it. Where Good Ideas Come From is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how to come up with tomorrow's great ideas.

[Arabic subtitles provided by the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, with support from the Stevens Initiative]

[triplea]

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.

[joshwinn]

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

[dimitramikou]

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

[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 .

[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...

[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!

[ignited]

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.

[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.

[victoriamazonica]

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...

[JJ-hpoe]

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

[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!

[MicahBuzanANIMATION]

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

[vynedvyne]

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!!!

[grantcooper]

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.

[janicelgo]

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.

[hipchickfitness]

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

[MsxMisunderstood]

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

[YassineBnihla]

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

[nhanhnguyen]

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

[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.