The human mind is a fascinating machine. While humans may not be the biggest or strongest throughout the animal kingdom, our thoughts, and as a result, our intellectual power has lead us to become the dominating figure on this planet. Many people argue that one’s most powerful resource is their thoughts, but what kind of “thoughts” make them so fierce? Louis H. Sullivan, in his essay “Thoughts”, believes that creative thinking is the most powerful method of thinking. In order for one to think creatively, they must not use words, as words slow down the thought process due to having to find words and group them together which can be tedious. Sullivan believes that the only exclusive way to think creatively is to think with images, pictures that
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After explaining the concept to him, he replied, “Dude, it exists already, it’s called Rainbow Six Siege.” This sparked some curiosity into my mind about original ideas even being possible at this point in time. Over the course humanity 's history, roughly 107 billion humans have walked the Earth and currently there are over 7 billion alive currently, all whom are constantly thinking of stuff in their mind. Therefore; any thought that we may can simply not be original, not something the thinker created, but a mere replica of accumulated thoughts learned from our human nature and experiences. For a thought to truly original, it must completely uninfluenced and pure without having gone through the contamination with the experience of the thinker. Defining original in context with a thought can be challenging. There is no such thing as originality dictionary that we may refer to check if any thought we had is truly an original thought. Infact, a thought is just something that only the thinker is aware of, so it is difficult to and silly to assume that a idea that one may is new. A original thought or idea may seem fresh to the one thinking of it, but is far from original when considering the …show more content…
All thoughts are based off experience; it’s beyond reality to come with an original idea without having any experience within the content of the idea being thought. Any and every inventor in history did not just accidentally come with the idea for their invention, for many, it took years of planning and coordination. Nikola Tesla did not invent the tesla coil or radio from the back of his mind, he had years of prior experience, infact; his motivation for his creative thinking and world changing inventions spurred from his mother who invented small household supplies when while he was growing up. The invention of the modern airplane is example of idea that humankind has obsessed with for thousands of years. An unimaginable number of people have thought about this idea, being able to soar up in the skies alongside the birds. The Wright brothers did not necessarily invent the airplane, that idea has been thought off long before their time, but with the available technology at their disposal, they were able to conceive that idea into the public’s perception and therefore reality. No inventor is truly an inventor. The true originator of the idea of the airplane, or any idea or invention, will never be
After explaining the concept to him, he replied, “Dude, it exists already, it’s called Rainbow Six Siege.” This sparked some curiosity into my mind about original ideas even being possible at this point in time. Over the course humanity 's history, roughly 107 billion humans have walked the Earth and currently there are over 7 billion alive currently, all whom are constantly thinking of stuff in their mind. Therefore; any thought that we may can simply not be original, not something the thinker created, but a mere replica of accumulated thoughts learned from our human nature and experiences. For a thought to truly original, it must completely uninfluenced and pure without having gone through the contamination with the experience of the thinker. Defining original in context with a thought can be challenging. There is no such thing as originality dictionary that we may refer to check if any thought we had is truly an original thought. Infact, a thought is just something that only the thinker is aware of, so it is difficult to and silly to assume that a idea that one may is new. A original thought or idea may seem fresh to the one thinking of it, but is far from original when considering the …show more content…
All thoughts are based off experience; it’s beyond reality to come with an original idea without having any experience within the content of the idea being thought. Any and every inventor in history did not just accidentally come with the idea for their invention, for many, it took years of planning and coordination. Nikola Tesla did not invent the tesla coil or radio from the back of his mind, he had years of prior experience, infact; his motivation for his creative thinking and world changing inventions spurred from his mother who invented small household supplies when while he was growing up. The invention of the modern airplane is example of idea that humankind has obsessed with for thousands of years. An unimaginable number of people have thought about this idea, being able to soar up in the skies alongside the birds. The Wright brothers did not necessarily invent the airplane, that idea has been thought off long before their time, but with the available technology at their disposal, they were able to conceive that idea into the public’s perception and therefore reality. No inventor is truly an inventor. The true originator of the idea of the airplane, or any idea or invention, will never be