The Ideative SuperNova
Astronomy defines a super nova as an event that occurs after a failing star shrinks, possibly down to the size of pinhole, while at the same time absorbing all the surrounding matter including planets and stars. As the star gathers more and more matter its density grows which increases its gravity causing it to pull in still more matter, until the star is so dense that it bursts – goes super nova – in one of the most powerful explosions in the universe.
The Ideative Process will cause Ideas to burst into your head, as if out of nowhere.
Ring Around Supernova 1987A (SN1987A) – November 28, 2003 NASA, P. Challis, R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and B. Sugerman (STScI)
The burst of the super nova is the perfect analogy for the burst of Ideas that comes from an Ideative SuperNova; an event that occurs when you have Inundated yourself in your Ideative field, Disrupted your Routines, Enhanced your Experiences and Knowledge, and worked to Assemble new Ideas. Ideas, often very good Ideas, burst into your mind.
When you feel that are your brain is about to burst with information and you just can not Inundate any further, stop. Relax. Set your mind free, or select one of the Ten Ways to Routinely Break Your Routine. Some of your best ideas will appear to you during down time, a car ride, a shower, listening to music, or doing something out of the ordinary.
Remember this simple acronym for creating Ideas: IDEA. IDEA stands for, Inundate, Disrupt, Enhance, and Assemble. The Ideative Process will help you cause that wonderful event when a great idea just pop into your head. The Ideative SuperNova.
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Very very impressive. I hope to see your book out in the book store soon. It seems like a good experience for young minds. The graphs are very interesting. It reminds me of a treasure map.
Thank you for sharing this information. Freely sharing knowledge that the author thinks is valuable is rare today. I agree with your statements about what today’s success and economic turnaround will consist of, entrepreneurship and trust, not in fortune 500s, rather our talents thoughts and experiences — stirring up our gifts. Articles like this one teach us how. I offer to the lego example, consider the gifts of others,the use of other professions to add to the vividness of our own abilities and imaginations. For example, as a doctor, imagine using up your legos, aka medical tools and supplies, to heal a patient and they need yet more medical attention. My E&P is enriched through expansion beyond my ideative topic, medicine, and including audio-visualizations of my aerospace engineering friend’s helicopter noisily hoovering above the facility stirring up a dust storm as she skillfully lowers the majestic metal bird straight down from the sky. She’s stopped by her new helicopter to give me a ride. The smell of leather from her chestnut-brown bomber jacket reminded me of a new car. I tell her about my patient and she tells me about the sleeping quarters of her helicopter and how they can be used to transport my patient to the nearest hospital. The end of my legos becomes the beginning of my friend’s legos and an E&K increase for the both of us. Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, interprofessional. Although the “different legos” are not part of our intimate E&K, they can be enough to ignite our senses to daydream Ideative SuperNova for a happy and successful ending to our selected ideative topic. A doctor in Haiti dreaming of better infrastructure to reduce puddling rain water to reduce mosquitoes breeding grounds may be just enough to get a civil engineer’s E&K stirred up. Thank you for being you.