Introduction to IFF

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创造，创新和改变

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The Pennsylvania State University

创造，创新和改变

331 个评分

Let’s keep making history together - over and over! In 2013 and 2014, over 200,000 people from more than 190 countries came together in this MOOC to explore creativity, innovation, and change. What did we DO? We discovered creative uniqueness through Creative Diversity. We used Intelligent Fast Failure to build innovative skills. We applied CENTER principles to drive personal change. And we implemented value creation skills to initiate lasting change. That was CIC 1.0 and CIC 2.0, and it was a BLAST! Now we’re back - and even better than before - with some new faces and fresh ideas to help you develop your creative potential, so you can enhance and transform your business, your community, and your personal life. This is CIC On-demand … we’re ready to ROCK … AND we are always open! Recommended Readings Innovate or Die - Jack Matson: http://amzn.to/14Wed0V CENTER - Darrell Velegol: http://amzn.to/17rLzXJ

从本节课中

CIC Mindset & Innovation Toolbox

Creativity, innovation, and change require a unique mindset and collection of mental tools. In this module, we will introduce you to the CIC mindset and to Intelligent Fast Failure (IFF) as a powerful tool for innovating. First, you will learn how to alter the way your brain works to produce ideas in the process called Mind Warping. Next, you will act to change your life and the world around you by fully using your own uniqueness. Finally, you will do what is considered impossible starting with little or no knowledge and few resources. Easy, right? Try it and see!

Introduction to IFF2:53

Idea Journal4:18

Mind Warping1:44

Life as Continuing Experiment3:36

Bold Acts of Defiance Exercise0:35

Shoe Tower Assignment0:44

与讲师见面

Dr. Kathryn W. Jablokow
Professor
Engineering Design and Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Darrell Velegol
Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Dr. Jack V. Matson
Professor Emeritus
Department of Enviromental Engineering
Elizabeth Kisenwether
Assistant Professor
Engineering Design
John Bellanti
Dr.
Dr. Armend Tahirsylaj

Hi.

I'm Jack Matson, and I'm going to talk about the importance of failing.

I'm a professor, an innovation junkie, and someone who fails.

The techniques of creativity and innovation

are not difficult to understand, but are challenging to practice and implement.

Why?

Risks are involved, and failures result.

Failures are a blow to our self esteem.

Who wants a resume filled with failure?

When I first attempted to teach creativity and

innovation, my engineering students hated it, absolutely hated it.

All they wanted was for me to teach to the test.

Creativity and innovation was too squishy for them, with no right answers.

They were angry and I was discouraged.

But I kept trying.

One evening my six year old son Brian

was building a structure with these popsicle sticks.

I joined in the fun and had a thought.

What if I took these sticks into the classroom and

had the students build a structure.

Would they get down on the six year old level?

Would they instantly get into the creative zone?

Why not try?

The next day in class, I gave the students sticks and

told them build the tallest structures.

The students experimented and failed a lot, I noticed,

built the tallest structures.

I repeated the sticks experiments with other students and

the results were the same.

Those who experimented and failed a lot, invariably built the tallest structures.

Clearly failure was an essential part of the creative process.

I coined the phrase, intelligent fast failure,

or IFF, to describe what I had observed.

I then applied the IFF principle to inventing products,

starting up businesses, even improving my tennis game.

My students started calling my course Failure 101.

They learned that IFF is a learning process and

it has nothing to do with self esteem.

I tell my students repeatedly that I will be looking for the frequency and

intensity of their failures as a measure as to how well they're doing.

Experiment, fail, learn, and create.

That's our mantra.

I invite you to make it your mantra.

Einstein was once quoted,

Genius is making all possible mistakes in the shortest period of time.

He certainly knew about IFF.

In this course we hope to celebrate your failures as you experiment and

create your future.

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