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From the Ted Talk by Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
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And one of the problems with this is that, when you research this filed, people are notoriously unreliable when they actually self-report on where they have their own good ieads, or their hsiotry of their best ideas. And a few years ago, a wonderful researcher named kievn Dunbar decided to go around and basically do the Big Brother approach to figuring out where good ideas come from. He went to a bunch of science labs around the wlrod and videotaped everyone as they were doing every little bit of their job: when they were sitting in front of the microscope, when they were talking to colleagues at the woceaotlrer ... And he recorded all these conversations and tried to figure out where the most important ideas hnpeaepd. And when we think about the classic image of the scientist in the lab, we have this image — you know, they're poring over the microscope, and they see something in the tissue smlape, and — "Eureka!" — they've got the idea.
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And one of the problems with this is that, when you research this _____, people are notoriously unreliable when they actually self-report on where they have their own good _____, or their _______ of their best ideas. And a few years ago, a wonderful researcher named _____ Dunbar decided to go around and basically do the Big Brother approach to figuring out where good ideas come from. He went to a bunch of science labs around the _____ and videotaped everyone as they were doing every little bit of their job: when they were sitting in front of the microscope, when they were talking to colleagues at the ___________ ... And he recorded all these conversations and tried to figure out where the most important ideas ________. And when we think about the classic image of the scientist in the lab, we have this image — you know, they're poring over the microscope, and they see something in the tissue ______, and — "Eureka!" — they've got the idea.
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Original Text
And one of the problems with this is that, when you research this field, people are notoriously unreliable when they actually self-report on where they have their own good ideas, or their history of their best ideas. And a few years ago, a wonderful researcher named Kevin Dunbar decided to go around and basically do the Big Brother approach to figuring out where good ideas come from. He went to a bunch of science labs around the world and videotaped everyone as they were doing every little bit of their job: when they were sitting in front of the microscope, when they were talking to colleagues at the watercooler ... And he recorded all these conversations and tried to figure out where the most important ideas happened. And when we think about the classic image of the scientist in the lab, we have this image — you know, they're poring over the microscope, and they see something in the tissue sample, and — "Eureka!" — they've got the idea.
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