Video · 18 min
Where good ideas come from
Steven Johnson · TED (Steven Johnson) Free Beginner
Johnson shows that most breakthroughs are slow hunches that sit half-formed for years and combine with other fragments, which is the deepest argument for writing everything down. Watching this reframes your running list as a place where partial ideas can collide and mature instead of evaporating.
- Good ideas are usually slow hunches, not sudden flashes
- Ideas grow by colliding with other half-formed ideas over time
- Capturing fragments lets connections happen that memory would lose
