Innovation Made Personal - Tom Kelly (transcript)
This is the transcript of a talk given by Tom Kelley, the General Manager of IDEO. The videos are available at http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2105
- Think and see with new eyes like a traveler. Use your powers of observation. Have that part of your brain turned up as high as you can all along.
- Treat life as an experiment. Be willing to tolerate lots of failures (like Thomas Edison and Jim Dyson).
- Have an attitude of wisdom which is a healthy balance between confidence in what you know and distrusting what you know just enough that keeps you thirsty for more knowledge.
- Use your whole brain (analytic left brain and intuitive right brain).
- Have a “tortoise mind” (assign tasks to the subconscious like Jim Collins of “Built to last” and “Good to great” fame who wrote down what he liked to do for one year to find out that he liked systems and teaching).
Jim Collins’ talks about three circles and the goal is to find the intersection of those for oneself: “What am I good at?”, “What am do I love to do?” and “What can I get payed for?”
