The D-School emphasizes that the inputs to your thinking drive the outputs of your thing. The brain doesn't make new material from nothing, there's no such thing as ex-nehelo creation in human beings. If you're trying to increase the variability of the output, then a simple question is where could I go to learn something new? You almost impute or project a sense of divine inspiration on everything you see.
What’s the secret to coming up with good ideas? For Jeremy Utley, it’s about generating as many as possible.
The director of executive education at the Stanford d.school, Utley says, “very few problems we face in business or in life have a single right answer.” All ideas — the good, the bad, and the ugly — are “a necessary input to an innovation process,” and an essential step in getting to solutions that will actually work.
In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Utley and host Matt Abrahams explore how we can focus less on finding the “right” answer and open ourselves up to more innovative ideas.
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