Summary

                                  Where good ideas come from?

    In this Ted talk, Mr. Steven Johnson give us a example--"If you were drinking all day, and then you switched from a depressant to a stimulant in your life, you would have better ideas."And the architecture of the space is also very important. Also need many people who have different background, to get together and share their own ideas.

        

Those five important vocabularies we need try to understand them, and "you have to do away with a lot of the way in which our conventional metaphors and language steers us towards certain concepts of idea-creation. "

We always take the idea from other peoples,we stitch them together into new forms, and we create something new. 

And he tried to use a example about Darwin, he had the idea and the concept, but was unable of fully thinking it yet. And that is actually how great ideas often happen.

At the end of video, he told a history of GPS positioning system in the world. The ideas for innovation are coming from accidental events. And it also needs to discuss and exchange our thinking with other people. Innovation needs a kind of exploration to get the ideas of life.

"That is how innovation happens. Chance favors the connected mind."