Sunday, January 23, 2011

January random thoughts

Undoubtedly, US is the most innovative country in the world currently. Why is it so?
From what I've observed and told by my professors, especially one from TR class, the reason is:
  • Think out of the box
  • Conducive ecosystems
  • Not afraid of failure
  • Culture that somewhat encourage innovation
  • Failure are welcome
Out of all, one key points that are stressed many many times are the courage to act despite failure, the just do it attitude. In contrast to Asian culture, whereby failure is being avoided, and hence people tend to take the safest path. And that's exactly why we are losing behind, in terms of creativity and innovations.

And as a student, I am concern. What I see here is people are studying for exams, to get that "A" and that's it. People are learning for the sake of the grade!

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