Look around you. Everything made by people was a novel invention once.
Where do the new ideas come from? Is it innate? Can new idea generation be learned? Honed? Turned into a skill? Or superpower? Can you discover new ideas in your field? This session will explore how to break out of the mental boxes in which we are comfortable. Your whole education has been about finding the “right answer” and not the “wrong answer.”
This session is about finding “new” answers.
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Speaker Bio
Alex Randall is a professor, entrepreneur, communicator and a business developer. He is a Princeton alumni ’73 and won the Daily Princetonian Prize for his unique invention here. That set him on a path of inventing and creative problem solving. He has three advanced degrees from Columbia and he studied with the founders of various Creative Problem Solving systems. Randall has taught about invention and creativity all over the world.
He created the world’s first e-commerce business with the first on-line database of products for sale. Later he created a non-profit and used recycled computers to support democracy-development groups in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Randall has 30 bootstrap ventures in his history, each started from a single blank sheet of paper and an idea… Where do those ideas come from? How do you tap into that channel? How do we think new thoughts? Randal lives in Princeton and teaches by Zoom.
Who can attend?
Open to the public and the campus community.
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