Technopreneur Awareness Program: Your Business Your Life Day 1, Part 4

Day 1 Part 4

CLARIFICATION

- Once we have chosen a topic and generated a lot of ideas, we have then need to clarify the ideas.
- Key research questions:

• 5 Wives, 1 Husband - What, Where, Why, Who, When, How
• 'Why' = cut off communication. Dont ever use.
• 'How' = very creative question.

Einstein was once asked:
'What would you do if you have 60 minutes to save the world from the collision from a large meteorite?'
- He replied: he would spend the first 55 minutes 'asking questions' and the last 5 minutes to 'find a solution'.

4 Levels of Questions:

1. - Does the idea fit in the current system?
2. - If not, how could we change the system?
3. - If not, how could we extract the concept of the idea?
4. - Then, based on the concept, could we propose other new ideas?

Example: Teaching Math & Science in English:
- Does the idea fit in the current system?
= No, because the Education system allows only BM.
- If not, how could we change the system?
= Yes, Tun Mahathir forced to change the Education system.
- If not, how could we extract the concept of the idea?
= What is the concept? To ensure students are well verse in English.
- Then, based on the concept, could we propose other new ideas?
= There are many ideas:
- Teaching Math & Science both in BM and English.
- Teaching non-core subjects such as PJK in English.
- Organise English Day weekly.
- Extent the period for English.
- Teach English in the most interesting & fun way.
- English teachers must be well trained.
- Show movies or play games in English.
- etc..
* How to pick up idea? - choose what we like : match with hobby & passion.

TOOL 3: Random Association

Aim:
- to force a connection between two totally unrelated things.
- to suspend or disable our conventional thinking style.

*The essence is randomness.

* " How many ideas hover dispersed in my head of which many a pair if they should come together, could bring about the greatest discoveries. " - George C. Lichtenberg.

Technology Fusion: Mechatronics

Community 1: New Community: Community 2:
mechanical engineering --> Mechatronics <-- electrical engineering

* " Innovation is not achieved by breaking through the boundries of existing technology, but as the fusion of different types of technologies. "

Method: Random Words

1) Relate your problem to a randomly chosen word.
2) The word is chosen
by pointing your finger at a word in the randomly open page of a dictionary or other books.
3) Direct connections are usually rare.
4) Need to explore series of connections before hitting on the 'right' connection.

Random Association; Force new connection between:
1) Book & River. cth: buku koleksi sungai-sungai.
2) Handphone & Pet.

* " Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision " - Peter Drucker

• First 100 ideas = logic
• Second 100 ideas = borders
• Third 100 ideas = beyond

* Untuk kreatif, mesti melawan arus:

• have to be stubborn.
• have to be hard headed.
• dont listen to other people's opinion.
• Perlu menongkah arus (break the traditional).