Where good ideas come from | Steven Johnson

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  • www.ted.com People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web.
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  • @doctor-dan
    @doctor-dan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    "I have an idea for our organization, it will be useful in 2020".
    I hope this idea kick in for we are having a little bit of modern times problems.

    • @annasavilova1765
      @annasavilova1765 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I came here for this comment, thank you

  • @tipani86
    @tipani86 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    It's now 2020, and this is still a great idea.

  • @DavidGitongawriter
    @DavidGitongawriter 10 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Eureka moments rarely happen and if they do, they have been cultivated for months, and sometimes years, before that eureka epiphany occurs. I agree with what the speaker says: You have one half of an idea and the other person has the other half and if you're in the right environment, they turn into something larger than the sum of their parts.

    • @lindsayd9584
      @lindsayd9584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love how you have written this out I was trying to find the words myself.

    • @jamesduff6937
      @jamesduff6937 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Couldn't agree more that it might take many years. What I'd like to point out to people is that a very big idea/concept can have many eureka moments in them- some big ones and some small ones. And correct, they do turn into something larger than the sum of their parts.

  • @triforcelink
    @triforcelink 13 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    i find that often times talking to people allows me to solidify my own thoughts/ideas, it feels like i am learning from myself

  • @crudhousefull
    @crudhousefull 12 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I get great ideas when I'm explaining something to someone else. I surprised by how naturally ideas forms when you go through with a strain of thought

  • @johnnielawson
    @johnnielawson 9 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. This is something I need to think about further as I work out on my own on ideas that run around in my head over and over and I often get stuck.
    Thank you 'I need to get out and mix more'. My online project could be so much greater.
    Johnnie Lawson

  • @iGlobalThink
    @iGlobalThink 13 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    One of the best TED talks of all time.

  • @naccm
    @naccm 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    El sputnik, los cafés, y los submarinos. Muy interesante, y bien relatado. Steven da en el clavo (no creo que sea el primero ni el último) de la generación de ideas, en relación a la importancia de los "espacios que generan conexión" y, además los "sistemas abiertos". ¡La historia del sputnik es genial! Thanks, Steve. Thanks, "Tedians"

  • @abhi5a
    @abhi5a 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is the genius of TED. Beautiful. After a couple of average speakers, TED is finally back!

  • @sheikhshafayat6984
    @sheikhshafayat6984 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Chance favors the connected minds" ~ an awesome way to finish the talk

  • @butabenjai
    @butabenjai 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "chance favours the connected mind" love it.

  • @P00P0STER0US
    @P00P0STER0US 13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I like this a lot. It's funny how cool it is to have a concept you thought you understood turned at an angle and shown to you in slightly new light. Connecting the development of new ideas with the development of new networks, and studying the nature of these networks. Just a cool twist on an old thought.

  • @benjaminmendenhall7425
    @benjaminmendenhall7425 10 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    I have to write 4 pages on the main idea of this video. FML

    • @AddctFrk14
      @AddctFrk14 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Benjamin Mendenhall So did you do it? or drop out of school and won't answer cause you're living in the streets with no access to wifi to reply on TH-cam?

    • @navalravikant7339
      @navalravikant7339 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Benjamin Mendenhall This is a 20 minutes video. Writing the script alone can spread to at least 4 pages

    • @benchernjavsky7097
      @benchernjavsky7097 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      RIP

    • @waterkingdavid
      @waterkingdavid 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Haha. I notice the first post was done 4 years ago. The first reply 2 years ago. The second 1 month ago. The 3rd 1 month ago. Eureka is still on it's way!

    • @conorryan1462
      @conorryan1462 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      F

  • @aeroxoxo
    @aeroxoxo ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Watching for English class

  • @julianott4671
    @julianott4671 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I purchased his book on this topic right after watching this video. What a great speech!

  • @poderosomor
    @poderosomor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “I have an excellent idea for our organisation, it will be useful in 2020”
    Management should have listened to this guy.

  • @luckystrke
    @luckystrke 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I Love how he wraps it up in the end. Great Talk!

  • @MsBHoopingAllure
    @MsBHoopingAllure 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    By some (good) chance I found this channel...connecting me to the wonders of connection. If only more cafes existed where thoughts were shared , and not just within one's group.

  • @Knowledgeinvestigations
    @Knowledgeinvestigations 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    For a ten-hours-of-brilliance discussion of this same topic, watch James Burke's Connections series (from 1979).

  • @KowdleBala
    @KowdleBala 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you Steven Johnson and TED.

  • @11889music
    @11889music 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think the fact that you watched this on the internet, and we're having a dialogue about it here (oti) answers that question with a great affirmation!

  • @barrieroche1106
    @barrieroche1106 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Are good ideas like happiness. You spend so long looking for it before you realise you had them it the time, just needed someone to share it with.

  • @anthonycarco2062
    @anthonycarco2062 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Interesting concept for idea creation. He made me think about the environment around me and how they influence the way we think and in turn how this effects the ideas we come up with! Anthony Carco

  • @Business-writersCoUk
    @Business-writersCoUk 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is what I call the art of confused creativity (or if you prefer - creative confusion).

  • @javiercantos5406
    @javiercantos5406 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    introverted people like myself I find to be more innovated, and thinking alone is thinking alone no matter where, so well put words

  • @minimaxhall
    @minimaxhall 9 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    480p... We meet again..

    • @Aritul
      @Aritul 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol.

  • @andreasolis3347
    @andreasolis3347 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I enjoyed watching this so much. I came here from my management class and boy, i learned so much!

  • @WillChousThoughts
    @WillChousThoughts 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    GREAT VIDEO! HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT

  • @SharpDesign
    @SharpDesign 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    15:09 the Hunch over Lunch, awesome how things build to better ideas

  • @KnightsofEmerald
    @KnightsofEmerald 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love that last quote: 'chance favors the connected mind'

    • @Aritul
      @Aritul 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes!

  • @rhemash
    @rhemash 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That was great information! Thank you so much for sharing it. Napolean Hill, in his Think and Grow Rich and Master Key to Riches, says when two minds come together a third mind is formed. Here's to collaborative thinking!!

  • @crushinnihilism
    @crushinnihilism 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The world before coffee sounds like a world worth living in!

  • @eagleeye1975
    @eagleeye1975 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    AWESOME TED TALK! Finally something substantive, rather than a puffy thing.

  • @nishkaarora6343
    @nishkaarora6343 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was so interesting, very well spoken.

  • @jeffglaza8318
    @jeffglaza8318 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Steve Johnson hits some gold nuggets on the mastermind effect. Could this video have been better? Sure, but if you are so distracted and willing to pick out the flaws and miss the diamonds in life well you will continue to come up short.

  • @rzvpooya
    @rzvpooya 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Chance favors the connected mind!
    Awesome :D

  • @azumaninjay
    @azumaninjay 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "chance favors the connected mind" I like that.

  • @nVtheWolF
    @nVtheWolF 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    She says something about letting introverts be exposed in an environment where they can comfortably express their ideas freely among others. Steven states that the idea is there, but the eureka moment occurs more often when people get together to talk about their mistakes and push through the mental blocks. He never said ideas don't come from being alone. He brought up Darwin for example and how his eureka moment was months of contemplating and research alone. In fact the idea starts off alone.

  • @danieljohnsonfilms
    @danieljohnsonfilms 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Blown away by this talk. Wow.

  • @Woosah11
    @Woosah11 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    We are all very fortunate to have such a loving God who can provide us with great ideas!

  • @ActiveDevelopment
    @ActiveDevelopment 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, highly recommended!

  • @bigshel99
    @bigshel99 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting talk... I'll have to check out his book when it comes out.

  • @ronaldramirez1325
    @ronaldramirez1325 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    El vídeo de Steven Johnson es muy interesante, nos propone una secuencia de cómo hacer las cosas a través de un buen desarrollo, criterio, pero sobre todo creatividad, el ejemplo de Starbucks es muy claro y nos impulsa a convertir un pensamiento en una idea, debo mencionar que las ideas tienen un concepto muy amplio, pero es importante que se cumplan las características de las mismas, es difícil tener una idea pero no un propósito.

  • @oollmmann
    @oollmmann 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Open innovation and creating physical environments where we can both mingle physically and wiredly can be the key factor to shift the social complex system towards a different society where ideas and projects come together, emmerging and creating value by openly interacting among free and open individuals that look for the common colective good.

  • @Aritul
    @Aritul 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The neonatal car incubator was such a neat innovation!

  • @TransparentUtoptia
    @TransparentUtoptia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Reminds me of my Mindbank concept, open innovation sort of approach to solving problems, edification and reward based on contribution and merit, basically put a pile of money in the middle of the virtual table, and let the best problem solvers self assign a task, and other verify what that task is worth, and pay accordingly. Having people bring their strengths to the virtual table, and work independently and or together. We have enough brain power on this planet, but greed stifles innovation. Creating a model where people can come forward with their concepts, get the support they need from relevant experts (solving problems as a side hustle or just out of pure passion if cause/problem/opportunity means something to them), it's a rough thought but has legs eh?

  • @demetrius235
    @demetrius235 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They can be complimentary. For example in corporate R&D. On one hand, you need to have those regular meetings with colleagues to discuss your results and problems in an open, non-hostile environment. You also need the time to be able to go and read the literature for guidance, run your experiments, collect the data and develop an understanding of what it's telling you. Susan and Steve are not contradicting each other.

  • @16yearoldwhiteboy
    @16yearoldwhiteboy 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I might have to argue a point about the alcohol versus stimulants. Many of the greatest most genius musicians (such as piano players like Art Tatum, google him if you don't know him) drank insane amounts of beer. I think it helped him musically because it helped him get rid of his nervousness to be great (a psychological trick that works in music as long as you don't get carried away with the drinking).

  • @kahlidkhalid4301
    @kahlidkhalid4301 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So informative and creative i like it so much to listen it.

  • @youneslahsini1789
    @youneslahsini1789 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    that gave us motivation for more creativity and innovation .

  • @thephilosophicalagnostic2177
    @thephilosophicalagnostic2177 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderful. I believe we are still in the Enlightenment. It's just moving a lot faster nowadays.

  • @LeonidasGGG
    @LeonidasGGG 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Last time I shared an idea with my boss and coleagues I got fired and none of my coleagues speaks to me anymore - true story.
    Now I just learned to keep my mouth shut :(

  • @ReformationDesigns
    @ReformationDesigns 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome content -- thanks for the upload.

  • @CalumnMcAulay
    @CalumnMcAulay 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    This guys very clever! This is the first time I've heard anything from him.

  • @petercassar49
    @petercassar49 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great talk! great book!

  • @human-connections
    @human-connections 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    ha ha @ 7:12 newton is all like oops my ball!!! but seriously great video!!! and great thoughts helped me :D

  • @SomethingSea1
    @SomethingSea1 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @DavidSabine (part 1) I'm impressed by your understanding and willingness to discuss - most YTers, including myself sometimes, are rather apt to go about pigeon-holing people.
    Yes, I agree - many of the teachers are brilliant and wonderful, and it's a shame they do their teaching in schools where their talent goes to waste.

  • @GeracaodeValor
    @GeracaodeValor 13 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    great!

    • @MateusVinicius-lo2hl
      @MateusVinicius-lo2hl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Feliz em saber que vejo o mesmo video que você!

    • @MatheusAnti
      @MatheusAnti 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MateusVinicius-lo2hl eu tbm! E foi bem no início....

  • @pokee9
    @pokee9 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    finding people who listen is key.

  • @AussieGriffin
    @AussieGriffin 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well put, and this leads to a question society must first acknowledge, then answer: Who benefits from academia judging ideas by how fearsome they are, when knowledge usually brings understanding, empathy and a sense of security?
    A.G.

  • @Speed001
    @Speed001 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think I remember that intial setup with switching from beer to coffee, depressant to stimulant and more ideas formed.

  • @Mega2Sakaura
    @Mega2Sakaura 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing!

  • @wendyangus9574
    @wendyangus9574 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    his theory works with creativity as well, music for me.

  • @hspannu777
    @hspannu777 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    this show is awesome...

  • @tayloreh
    @tayloreh 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Creating new ideas from living in a world where different connections are possible - stepping into what we don't know we don't know... It makes me think of Landmark Education... Highly recommend a thorough gander at them if this video piques you... they get mixed opinions from people who've never really taken it, but those who have, 9/10 say their life is better for it.

  • @watchmakerfs
    @watchmakerfs 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome!

  • @7thetruthwillfreeyou791
    @7thetruthwillfreeyou791 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've had the flash the stroke their finding. Stroke of genius I call it

  • @joemac356
    @joemac356 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a great speaker.
    Not once did he utter, "uhhh", or, "ummmm".
    Unless this was edited, he knew exactly where he was going all the way through his speech.

    • @Viper1698
      @Viper1698 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      joemac356 1:17

  • @CurtHowland
    @CurtHowland 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @jakylili Keep in mind that what we know of as "germ theory" is a very recent development, with sewage treatment even more recent. People commonly used rivers and streams as both water sources and toilets.
    The sterilizing effects of alcohol were exceedingly important even though people did not know why it worked.
    The habit of boiling drinking water did not exist in Europe until the introduction of coffee and tea, both of which use boiled water which also sterilizes. But again, no one knew why.

  • @quantumboy19
    @quantumboy19 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    wonderful thought...but i believe the great ideas are popped into the surface of the mind in a man's quiet moment....it just gets nurtured in the process of connecting the idea into the "liquid" network.

  • @MCGaming1231
    @MCGaming1231 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this!!!!!!

  • @victav
    @victav 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @NicosMind can you please tell me where I can find those lectures you speak of?? They sound interesting.....

  • @jonanice
    @jonanice 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    chance favours the connected mind
    wow that makes so much sense

  • @rixtex9
    @rixtex9 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    to me it sounds like...............nobody actually knows what they are doing...............the idea leads us................we don't lead the idea................

  • @julesd.c.5293
    @julesd.c.5293 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is very true!

  • @Lagnar
    @Lagnar 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    By the end, it kinda puts a whole new spin on "The Internet Generation." Bravo! :}

  • @TheGardenofWisdom
    @TheGardenofWisdom 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great talk! Has anybody read his book?

  • @namanpant
    @namanpant 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    awesome!!

  • @markus310773
    @markus310773 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    "That's what your office should look like." First requirement accomplished :)

  • @deanrowland3538
    @deanrowland3538 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love you all!!!

  • @BobbyMercy1
    @BobbyMercy1 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    this very interesting video man loved it

  • @Mega2Sakaura
    @Mega2Sakaura 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That is so true bro xD
    Both the shower and toilet XD

  • @128pagenovella
    @128pagenovella 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    it's almost like he's saying two minds are better than one. imagine what humans could have achieved if we'd been aware of this amazing notion from prehistory. we'd have civilisation and everything. mindblowing.

  • @lizziiemoura
    @lizziiemoura 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Incrível 👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @lodproductions90
    @lodproductions90 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @walkinhop Exactly, that is exactly how it works. As you said it, the resourceful guy meets the average guy with a brilliant idea and makes it happen. That is, by the way, why companies have constant meetings and encourage their employees to "brainstorm" their ideas. And that is why people like Steven Johnson encourage people to speak their ideas in coffee houses. Resourceful people just waiting for the fools who give them their ideas and make them into gold. :-D

  • @AnietieOffiong
    @AnietieOffiong 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice Idea inspiring talk.

  • @11ragnar11
    @11ragnar11 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    i had idea to watch this video... what a great idea!

  • @joshuabenjaminbillano2645
    @joshuabenjaminbillano2645 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wonderful :)

  • @yochezable
    @yochezable 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    20 minutes to tell me what we all already knew. 2 minds are better than one and creative ideas are a cultivating collaboration of other ideas.

  • @bergweg
    @bergweg 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    connecting vs. protecting, competing vs. cooperating.

  • @MichelleBirdsongMainstreaming
    @MichelleBirdsongMainstreaming 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    i love it!!

  • @Jontman42
    @Jontman42 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    17:47 Coach!

  • @sheeshmageeshmagoosh
    @sheeshmageeshmagoosh 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    namaste!

  • @MindAgilis
    @MindAgilis 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Could certain video games stimulate creativity, mental flexibility and innovative problem-solving?

  • @MrR4nD0mDUd3
    @MrR4nD0mDUd3 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have this great idea for 2020.

  • @naybobdenod
    @naybobdenod 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    excellent

  • @ronaldomarinho9890
    @ronaldomarinho9890 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    O acaso favorece a mente conectada! - Steven Johnson

  • @vickdoll15
    @vickdoll15 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mind blown

  • @lodproductions90
    @lodproductions90 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Everyone who truly is in the idea business knows: There are those who have ideas, and those like Johnson who go to coffee houses and hear you out! The ones who have an idea and want to make it happen never share them with those inspirational gurus! It is the oldest trick in the world to animate the average people to speak out their mind and their ideas, only that those people with the resources can pick them up (read: steal them). :-D

  • @nr655321
    @nr655321 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That's a very formal way of looking at ideas, as if they were the same as duck fat or silk worms.