Week 4 Reading Reflection

The section that was the most interesting and surprising was the four-step process of creativity. I thought it was interesting when the author referred to the creativity process as "structured and focused chaos." I never really thought about creativity that way. You can have all the wild ideas you want, but unless you know how to properly implement them into something real then those opportunities will just float away. Something I really connected with in terms of this process was "The Incubation Process." I often find that I get my best ideas while doing something mindless. If I'm driving or even just going for a run, I find that my mind wanders and my creativity really starts going wild.

Something that confused me in the reading was the definition of appositional relationship. I didn't really understand exactly what that term means in terms of entrepreneurship.

Two questions I would ask the author would be 1) What activities can be done to expand creativity and 2) What are some of the myths associated with left-brain vs. right-brain thinking?

Something that I disagree with would be the author's statement about "right-brain" people vs. "left brain" people. Scientists have proven that this concept isn't exactly true. People tend to use all of the connections in their brain for any kind of thinking, whether it be being analytical or imaginative. People are simply just more analytical or imaginative than others.

Top 5 World Problems

The world's top problems from most serious to least serious:

1) Defining a large group of people based on the actions of a few

2) Climate change

3) Apathy towards environmental issues

4) The growing world population

5) Being disconnected

Top solutions from most possible to implement to least possible to implement

1) Getting government officials to take action in implementing policies to remedy some of the major factors contributing to climate change.

2) Creating a government service that teaches people about the environment and provides incentives for being environmentally-conscious.

3) Governments providing birth control education to combat the rapid population increase. 

4) Creating a government organization that teaches people about different religions, races, and cultures to allow people to become more open-minded. 

5) Having official social media-free holidays to combat the increasing disconnectedness of millennials today. 

For my list of the world's top problems, I ranked them the way I did because I believe our world's most serious problems are people who define an entire group of people based on the actions of a few and climate change. All over the world, people tend to judge an entire group of people based on the actions of a few extremists. Entire religions, races, and even cultures are discriminated against or even persecuted because of this. I think this is one of the world's most serious problems because if people don't stop filling their hearts with hate, this world isn't going to be a very delightful place. However, I placed my solution to this problem as number 4 on the second list because it is very hard to change people's perceptions of the world and the people in it. I also placed climate change as one of the world's most serious problems because our natural world is in danger of being destroyed. However, I placed my solution to this problem as number 1 on the second list because I think it would be very easy to influence lawmakers to create policies on climate change. If everyone makes a small effort, we can make a big difference.